
When you go to print something from your Macintosh computer OS X gives you a ‘PDF’ option in the bottom left corner of the print window. This option creates a PDF of the document that you are trying to print and then sends that PDF file somewhere.
- If you select “Open in Preview” it will open the newly created PDF document in Apple’s preview app.
- If you select “Save as PDF” it will allow you to save the document somewhere.
- If you select “Send in Mail” It will create a PDF of the printed document, open a new mail message and attached the PDF to that mail message.
This is a really handy feature but what you may not know is that you can add or remove items to this PDF menu.
To add something to the PDF menu find the “Library/PDF Services” folder and then drag an alias (Command-Option-drag) of any application into this folder. That application will now appear in the PDF menu and the PDF file will be sent to that application when it is created. You can even create custom
To remove an item from the PDF menu simply remove it from the”Library/PDF Services” folder.

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