Creating PDFs

My topic for today is creating pdf files from any document.

On the Mac this is easily done. From the application you are working in go to File->Print(or ⌘ P for you short key people). When the print menu comes up you'll see in the lower left hand corner a 'pdf" button. Click the "pdf" button and select "Save as a PDF". Here's a picture:

On a PC it's a little harder but not much. You'll need to download an application called PDFCreator. The nice thing is it's free and it works great. You can download it here. I've used PDFCreator for years and it has always worked great. Once you have it installed and you have your document open you want to create a PDF with go to File->Print or Alt+P(shortcut key) and choose the PDFCreator printer. That's it! You're done.


For Saline Area Schools Staff to quote Eddie:

"Keep in mind you staff out there that the Windows tip above will not work for you here in the district. Since you can not install any software on a district workstation, you should go to our PDF Creator on the Printserver instead (Start>Run then enter \\printserver and then double click to install it in your profile). After you have printed to it, you then go to the Commons folder and then go to the PDF folder within. Your document will be inside. Remember to delete it afterwords, please. ;-) On the Mac it still works the same way as above."

Thanks Eddie.

Words of Wisdom: Don't always think you need to buy software to do the task at hand, lots of time with a little googling around I've been able to find a solution that is free or nearly free.

If you have the time, here's an interesting website I found for all the parents out there.