Mac User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new in macOS Tahoe
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- Intro to Apple Intelligence
- Translate messages and calls
- Create original images with Image Playground
- Create your own emoji with Genmoji
- Use Apple Intelligence with Siri
- Find the right words with Writing Tools
- Summarize notifications and reduce interruptions
- Use ChatGPT with Apple Intelligence
- Apple Intelligence and privacy
- Block access to Apple Intelligence features
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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
- Resources for your Mac
- Resources for your Apple devices
- Copyright and trademarks
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
, click Edit Menu, then choose a different default action.Choose a name and 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.