Print to PDF

[HLdan]

Adobe InDesign, for one. I don't know about the current version, but version 2.0 has a non-standard print dialog box which does not include the print to PDF option, among others. I believe this approach is common with Adobe applications, or at least it was.

Since OS support for printing to PDF started with OSX, I don't know that length of Mac use is really an issue here, but if it matters, I've been a Mac user since 1984, and over the years I've seen quite a few applications which monkey with the core services of the OS, such as printing.

Well, let's not count Adobe's applications (actually I've always known about this) as they generally ship with the Adobe Reader application which allows for saving as PDF. Remember Adobe is most known by even novice users for their PDF reader. It makes sense that they would create their software to work along side with Reader.
I'm just happy that Preview is so advanced now that I don't have to be slave to using that bloated Adobe Reader anymore.

 

[IJ Reilly]

I think you're confusing Adobe Reader with Adobe Acrobat Distiller.

Anyway, you asked for an example and I gave you one.

 

[Le Big Mac]

This is not necessarily true. Applications can bypass the standard print dialog box, and some do.

You mean like Preview, which doesn't allow you to save a pdf as a pdf? (I'd like to print selected pages sometimes to a new file)

Office 2008 has a "Save as" option for PDF. That might be their replacement for PDF printing.

Microsoft has to be different, see.

Or use a different phrase. "Save to pdf" actually is more accurate.

 

[IJ Reilly]

You mean like Preview, which doesn't allow you to save a pdf as a pdf? (I'd like to print selected pages sometimes to a new file)

Sure it does, either by printing or Save As.

 

[rdstoll]

I love my new Mac more and more each day. So I'm a Mac newbie and was flustered thinking I needed to shell up to $400 for Adobe Acrobat just so I could convert documents to PDF. Lo and behold, I stumble upon that feature when I went to print and Excel file!!

Are these PDFs the real deal?? This is just great!