Keyboard Shortcut to 'Save to PDF...' on OSX

chrisbowler:

garrettstjohn:

I do a fair amount of saving to PDF for electronic receipts, designs, etc. and have disliked the extra clicks that it takes to save as PDF on Mac OSX. Here’s a great way to set up a keyboard shortcut to simplify the process.

Nice handy tip — getting rid of those few extra steps adds up.

Very useful tip, I set this up immediately.

A few additional pointers:

Users of Mac OS X Leopard and later will find this under the preference pane “Keyboard”.
Be sure to name the shortcut exactly like the menu item, otherwise this won’t work. This is especially important if you use a language other than English.
If you’re using a German keyboard layout: The three dots in the name of the menu item “Save as PDF…” are not three separate periods, but an ellipsis, which you get by pressing “ALT+.” on any standard Apple keyboard.