Hack 40 Save As PDF with Mac OS X 
Create PDFs quickly and easily from any
Macintosh OS X program.
Apple built a "Save As PDF"
capability right into the Macintosh OS X Print dialog box. Any time
you go to print a document, you can choose Save As PDF . . . from the
bottom of the Print dialog box. Unfortunately, this approach provides
no options and tends to produce large files, but at least it is a
quick solution to producing PDFs. This option is available at the
bottom left of any Print dialog box, as shown in Figure 4-9.
If you click the Save As PDF . . . button, a file dialog box will ask
you where to put the resulting PDF file. Select a location, click OK,
and the Mac will print to a PDF file.
The results are different from those created by Distiller. On an
early draft of Chapter 1 of this book, without figures, Mac OS X
produced a 344 KB file, while the PDFMaker macro
produced a 144 KB file.
There aren't any obvious configuration options for
Save as PDF . . . , but if you have Mac OS X 10.3 or later, you can
choose settings through the Filters tab of the ColorSync
utility's Preferences window. (The ColorSync utility
is in MacintoshHD:Applications:Utilities.) If you check PDF Workflow in
the Domains tab, you'll be able to change your PDF
options from the Print dialog box as well.
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