Mac User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new in macOS Sequoia
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- Get started with Apple Intelligence
- Use Writing Tools
- Use Apple Intelligence in Mail
- Use Apple Intelligence in Messages
- Use Apple Intelligence with Siri
- Get webpage summaries
- Summarize an audio recording
- Use Apple Intelligence in Photos
- Summarize notifications and reduce interruptions
- Apple Intelligence and privacy
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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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- Control what you share
- Set up your Mac to be secure
- Allow apps to see the location of your Mac
- Use Private Browsing
- Keep your data safe
- Understand passwords
- Change weak or compromised passwords
- Keep your Apple Account secure
- Use Mail Privacy Protection
- Use Sign in with Apple for apps and websites
- Find a missing device
- Resources for your Mac
- Resources for your Apple devices
- Copyright
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. Optionally, add one or more tags and enter the information you want in the Title, Author, Subject, and Keywords fields.
Later, you can search on the contents of those fields using Spotlight.
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: If you’ve made an online purchase and the webpage is showing your receipt as a proof of purchase, you can save the receipt as a PDF rather than print it. 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.