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Running Mac OS X Tiger
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Running Mac OS X Tiger

by Jason Deraleau, James Duncan Davidson
December 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
400 pages
11h 33m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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PDF Services

A nice feature of Mac OS X’s print system is its tight integration with Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF). Earlier versions of Mac OS X had a simple Save as PDF button in the lower-left corner of the print sheet. With Tiger, the Save as PDF button has been replaced with a PDF menu that allows you to perform several different PDF-related tasks. The PDF menu also provides easy access to PDF workflows, which are scripts and programs designed to automate common tasks when working with PDFs:

Save as PDF

The first—and simplest—is the Save as PDF option. Select it, give your new PDF a name, and Mac OS X does the rest of the work. The end result is a PDF version of what your document would look like on paper.

Save PDF as PostScript

Selecting the Save PDF as PostScript option performs a very similar process to the Save as PDF option, you just end up with a file in the PostScript format (.ps) instead of a PDF.

Fax PDF

As mentioned earlier in this chapter, Mac OS X Tiger has added fax support to the OS. This option is how you make use of that fax functionality. Selecting this option will pop up a new sheet for entering the fax recipient, cover page information, and other fax-related settings.

Compress PDF

The Compress PDF option is the first of several Automator workflows that Apple has included with Mac OS X. You can examine this action yourself by double-clicking it in the /Library/PDF Services folder. The workflow contains a single action, which compresses all image files ...

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