Re: Printing to PDF... Much easier on a Windows boxen!

"whjones" <whjones> stated in post 4625cb6d$0$5811$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
on 4/18/07 12:40 AM:

As usual, you don't know what you're talking about. If you want to change
your location in Windows, you have to first change a pref, then you'll have
an extra step similar to Mac 7. But in any case, if Adobe PDF is the
default, and you don't want to change any settings, you can Print > press
Enter.

LOL, LOL, LOL. That is a DIRECT QUOTE from Acrobrat Professional 8
help file. LOL.

Well, I know that Adobe wrote the program, but here's how I print to
PDF. After completing work in the desired application, I simply press
Command-P to bring up the Print dialog window. On that window is a
button marked PDF. Pressing that button reveals a drop-down *** with
an Print to PDF entry. Once selected, the last window prompts me for a
file name and Print location. That's it. To recap:

1. Open the document/file to be saved as a PDF
2. Press Command-P
3. Press the PDF button
4. Select the Print to PDF entry
5. Provide the desired filename and print location and click Save

I often want to "print" a PDF to my desktop... so I made it even easier:

1. Open the file that you want to convert to a PDF in
its authoring application, and choose File > Print.
2. Choose Desktop from the PDF menu, as shown here:
<http://tmp.gallopinginsanity.com/tmp/mailpdf/>

One of the great things about the Mac PDF functionality is that it is easy
to personalize for the way you work. Want to save it to the desktop with,
say, the date... easy to write a script in Automator - something many
non-programmers can do pretty easily. Want it to be saved to some other
folder... just add the folder to your "PDF Services". You can even send it
to Acrobat Pro if you have the program and want to edit it there, or, as I
describe on the above linked page, send it as an attachment or a named
attachment... you can also turn it into a booklet or encrypt it or do almost
anything you want.

Fewer steps than what was described for Windows and allows a lot more
flexibility.

So I have five steps and the Windows instructions above have only four
steps.

Easy to get the Mac down to two... as I show, above.

I really don't care, and MUCH prefer the Mac OS way. Everything on a Mac is
seamless - not disjointed as on a Windows machine. Additionally, the Windows
instructions are not applicable for Adobe Reader, the free application. On a
Mac, which uses the Adobe framework, every file you create can be saved as a
PDF, with no need to purchase Adobe Acrobat Professional.

Why is it so hard for you Winblows fanbois to accept the fact that Macintosh
computers are, quite simply, better than PCs? You actually stoop to to
compare a function between a commercial Windows product to the same process
freely performed on a Macintosh. Is it really surprising that a COMMERCIAL
(read: one for which you actually pay money) could possibly be ONE step
shorter than what you can do FREELY on a Mac?

But the Mac makes it easy to reduce it down to half the number of steps - no
extra software needed.

Sometimes you people actually make me wonder about your capacity for believing
not coming out of Redmond. Macs are simply better, at everything, than a PC.

Not everything... but many things.


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