- With a document open on your Mac, choose File > Print, or press Command-P.The Print dialog opens, with a small preview of how your document will look when printed. Click the arrows below the preview to scroll through the pages.Tip: To view a full-size preview in the Preview app, click the PDF pop-up menu, then choose Open PDF in Preview.
- If the settings in the Print dialog are fine as is, click Print, and you’re done. Otherwise, continue to step 3.
- Choose any of the following common print settings (you may need to click Show Details to see some of the settings):
- Printer: Choose the printer you want to use. If the printer you want isn’t available, you can add one. See Add a printer on Mac. If you see an icon next to the printer you want to use, there may be an issue you need to resolve—see Check a printer’s status from Mac.
- Presets: A preset is a group of print settings. In most cases you can use the default settings, but you can also choose a group of settings you’ve saved from a previous print job. See Save your Mac print settings to use later.
- Copies: Specify the number of copies you want. To print all pages of a document before the next copy prints, click Show Details, click the print options pop-up menu, choose Paper Handling, then select “Collate pages.”
- B & W (or Black and White): Select to print in black and white, if your printer has this capability.
- Two-Sided: Select this to print on both sides of the paper (also called duplexing), if your printer has this capability.
- Pages: Choose to print all pages, a single page, or a range of pages.
- Orientation: Click the buttons to switch between portrait or landscape orientation.
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A friend told me that on the Mac anything that I could send to a printer could also be easily saved as a PDF file on my computer, to examine or even print later. I have no clue how to do that, but it’d sure be useful. How do you print to a PDF on a Mac?
This is a common question and highlights a feature of Mac OS X that’s well worth knowing, a feature that in my eyes, at least, is one of the best capabilities of the Mac system. After all, without the print-to-pdf feature, you’d end up having to use a commercial PDF rendering application like Adobe Acrobat, which is pretty expensive and would significantly impact your capabilities too.
Fortunately, it’s pretty darn easy to print to a PDF with just what’s built in to Leopard or Panther (different versions of Mac OS X).
For example, I’ll convert a Web page into a PDF file by opening up the page in Safari, then choosing File –> Print…. This brings up the following dialog window:
Notice the button labelled “PDF” on the lower left. That’s the target, so click it. Now you’ll see this:
As you can see, there are quite a few choices in terms of how the printer program formats and renders the page you seek to print, but I always just choose Save As PDF…
Apple Print To Pdf
. Now you’ll get yet another dialog box:![How How](/uploads/1/2/6/8/126892831/693219937.png)
You can probably leave this all untouched, but I would suggest you rename the “save as” to have a name that you find mnemonic, not algorithmically scraped from another page. ?
Once you’ve done that, click on “Save” and a few seconds later you’ll have a PDF file that is the rendering of the page or document you were viewing!
Update: if you want to accomplish this same result in Windows, there are a number of choices available. I suggest that you check out PDF to DOC Converter Pro