

Make a “Save as PDF” Keyboard Shortcut in Mac OS X Now you’re ready to Save as PDF where ever you are, easy peasy.įor some apps you won’t need to hit P twice, like Chrome which will bring up the print option with Save as PDF as an option.Īnd yes hitting P twice sounds like it could be a conflict, but as MacSparky says, “trust me”, because it works.

Scroll down a bit further to see the guides for making the same keystroke on older MacOS versions. In modern macOS versions, you can use the following steps to create a “Save as PDF” keystroke in macOS. How to Make a “Save as PDF” Keyboard Shortcut for macOS Monterey, Big Sur, Mojave, High Sierra It’s going to look and sound like a conflict with the normal Mac OS X print shortcut of Command+P, but it does not.

This walkthrough is going to demonstrate enabling a ‘Save as PDF’ keyboard function as a secondary feature of the traditional printing keyboard shortcut, and we’ll show you how to set the keystroke for macOS Monterey, macOS Big Sur, Mojave, High Sierra, MacOS Sierra, Mac OS X El Capitan, and before.
