Portable Doc­u­ment For­mat, or .pdf, is my favourite file­type to send to oth­ers when I want to show them a doc­u­ment, and I care about for­mat­ting, file­size and com­pat­i­bil­ity. Your Mac comes with Pre­view, and Win­dows users can down­load a mul­ti­tude of .pdf read­ers like Foxit Reader and Acro­bat to read .pdf’s.

To make a .pdf in almost any Mac appli­ca­tion:
1. In the Title bar, click File>Print

2. In the popup win­dow, click the PDF but­ton

3. Choose a loca­tion, name your doc­u­ment and save. You can even insert key­words and the like, if you’re cool like me.

4. If you want, you can pre­view the doc­u­ment in pre­view with­out sav­ing it, or email the .pdf right from this prompt. Pretty rad if you ask me!