You don’t need Adobe Acrobat to create a PDF file in OS X. It’s actually very simple to created PDF’s of any of your documents (even pictures) on your Mac.
- Start by opening the file you want to convert to a PDF. This can be a MS Word document, Excel file, text file or even a picture.
- With the document open, select File -> Print… You can also use the keyboard shortcut
+ P (Command+P) to bring up the Print dialogue. - Though not all print preview windows are the same (don’t be surprised if it isn’t identical to the screenshot below) – they all have one thing in common – a PDF button in the bottom left corner.
- Click that button and then select Save as PDF… from the drop-down menu.
- In the Save window, you can add the meta data Title, Author, Subject and/or Keywords, though none are required. Click the Save button.
- And now you’ll have a .pdf of your document.
- That’s it!
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Easy… but unfortunately it is not always working. For instance, when I try to “print” a word document, headers and footers are not printed in the pdf file…
If one of you has a solution, would be great!
Thanks
Seb
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