Mac User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new in macOS 27
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- Intro to Continuity
- Use AirDrop to send items to nearby devices
- Hand off tasks between devices
- Control your iPhone from your Mac
- Copy and paste between devices
- Stream video and audio with AirPlay
- Make and receive calls and text messages on your Mac
- Use your iPhone internet connection with your Mac
- Share your Wi-Fi password with another device
- Use iPhone as a webcam
- Insert sketches, photos, and scans from iPhone or iPad
- Unlock your Mac with Apple Watch
- Use your iPad as a second display
- Use one keyboard and mouse to control Mac and iPad
- Sync music, books, and more between devices
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- Get started
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- Accessibility features for vision
- Get started with VoiceOver
- Zoom in on what’s around you
- Zoom in on your Mac screen
- Increase font size and icons
- Adjust the display colors
- Hover to zoom in on text and colors
- Listen to or change how text appears in apps
- Customize onscreen motion
- Increase the size of what’s on your screen
- Make the pointer easier to see
- Have your Mac speak text that’s on the screen
- Resources for your Mac
- Copyright and trademarks
- Resources for your Apple devices
Save a document as a PDF on Mac
You can share a document with other people by saving it in Portable Document Format (PDF). Even people without the app you used to create the document can read it as long as they have a PDF viewer, such as Preview or Adobe Acrobat.
On your Mac, open the document you want to save as a PDF.
Choose File > Print.
Click the PDF button or click
to open the PDF pop-up menu, then choose Save as PDF.
Clicking the PDF button saves the document as a PDF by default. To change this, click
Enter a name and choose a location for the PDF file.
To protect your document with a password, click Security Options.
You can require passwords for opening the document, copying from the document, and printing the document.
Tip: You can save a receipt from online purchases as a PDF. Click the PDF pop-up menu, then choose Save to Web Receipts. The PDF is placed in the Web Receipts folder in your Documents folder.
Share or export a document from the Print dialog
On your Mac, open the document, then choose File > Print.
Click the PDF pop-up menu, then do any of the following:
Send the PDF by email: Choose Send in Mail to attach the PDF to a new Mail message.
Save the PDF to iCloud Drive: Choose Save to iCloud Drive to store it in iCloud so you can access it on your other devices.
Save as a PostScript file: Choose Save as PostScript to save the document as a PostScript Level 2 file (ASCII format) that can be viewed and edited in other apps.