Creating PDFs on your Mac....The easy way!

Creating PDFs on your Mac….The easy way!

Creating a PDF file on your Mac is as easy as printing a document. Any application that has a print dialogue box can create a PDF file.

Here’s how: just open a file -it can be just about anything. From the top drop-down menus, click on File/Print. Now, instead of selecting a printer, click on the PDF drop down menu and select one of the PDF options. Use the first option “Save as PDF” for the default PDF option. Note that you can the document as a PDF to Mail, Postcript, Fax, and many other options.

It may take a couple seconds or up to a few minutes for it to finish and save the document where you tell it to. Speed depends on CPU power. Once completed, you have your PDF! This PDF will be fully compatible with all systems.

But wait…THERE’S MORE!!!

You can also use Preview (a built in document and pdf/image viewer on your Mac) to save multiple images into a PDF (Acrobat Pro is not so proprietary on this feature).

The first thing you need to do is to open your images using Preview. You can do this by opening your first image, and then dragging all of the other images onto the program. You may also do this by selecting multiple images and right click/open them.

Open up Preview with your first image. If the sidebar isn’t already open, go to your top drop-down menus, and click on View/Sidebar/Thumbnails. Then select the second batch of images and drag them into the sidebar. If the images are all in the same folder you can open them all at once by selecting the images and double clicking one of the images. If needed, you can rearrange the images by dragging and dropping them into the correct order.

You are now ready to export the images (make sure you rotate the images as needed first). Select all of the images in the sidebar (Use Shift to select the top and then the bottom thumbnail on the right, or press Command A (for select all)). Go to File/Print Selected Images. Then use the PDF option at the bottom of the page as discussed at the beginning of this post.

Very cool!!!

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