Hi Eliza, A general way to save as PDF from any application is to print (Command- P), then in the Printer dialog window use item chooser menu (VO-I) to find the PDF Menu Button by pressing "p d" and return. Once on the PDF menu button, VO-Space and arrow down to "Save as PDF". You'll also find options to Open PDF in Preview. This is a very nice feature of the Mac operating system, since any document can be saved as a PDF and can be viewed in Preview (without first saving as PDF) if you want to see how page breaks, etc. work out. This also means that if you want only a certain page or piece of information from a web page you can locate the page in Preview and use the page range arguments in the printer dialog window -- a web page that would "print" as 5 printed pages in a PDF can be first viewed in Preview through the printer dialog to find the information is on page 2 through 3. Then, you could quit the preview menu with escape, and do your Command-P to print again, but select the page range to only range from 2 through 3 instead of all pages, and save the content as a PDF through the PDF Menu Button.
So the instructions to save as PDF via the print option will work for TextEdit and other applications (Open Office, Pages, Safari, etc.) However, if the content is image content (e.g. a scan of document rather than text) the save as PDF will not allow you to read any content you could not read before. One really neat feature of this print to PDF is that support for clickable links to PDFs of web pages is clearly coming. It's actually working already, but VoiceOver does not announce where the links are present. If you print a web page of PDF links and then click on those links in Preview, you'll find that Safari will open up to the linked content. This is easiest to try if you have your cursors tracking, but will work for any instance where you know there's a link, and have routed your mouse cursor to content that spans the link in the PDF file. Right now this requires a hardware click with trackpad, mouse, or by pressing the "5" key on a numeric keypad with NumPad Commander activated. Cheers, Esther On Apr 27, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Eliza Cooper wrote: > > Hi list, > Sorry if you just got a blank message from me - I'm on a different > computer today, and it's confusing me. Could someone tell me how to > save a textedit file as a .pdf? Do I just open it in Preview and save > it? I have a word 97 document, and when I opened it in preview, it > said something about an image, one of 237 documents or something. Do > I need to do something different? Can I convert to pdf from TextEdit? > Thanks, > Eliza > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
