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Mac Kung Fu, 2nd Edition
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Mac Kung Fu, 2nd Edition

by Keir Thomas
November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
424 pages
11h 59m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Tip 319Save PDFs Automatically to a Folder

Macs are extremely PDF friendly, to the extent that you can output just about any document as a PDF: click FilePrint in any application that outputs images or documents, and select the PDF drop-down button at the bottom left of the dialog box.

If you regularly output PDFs to a particular folder, you might be annoyed that you have to navigate to the folder each time you want to save a PDF there.

Luckily, there’s a simple solution that will add the folder as an option in the PDF drop-down list within Print dialog boxes. Selecting it will automatically create the PDF there.

Alternatively, or additionally, you can create a magical folder that will convert any file placed into it into a PDF.

Adding a PDF ...

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