Converting MS Office files to PDF on macOS
Apple macOS has been a wonderful environment for creative professionals. From the very beginning, they embraced the Graphical User Interface (GUI), rather than a code- and data-oriented world or personal computers at a time when standards were evolving and changing very quickly. We are now way beyond basic issues such as fonts, application availability, or software functions. Almost all features in Acrobat are the same as on Windows systems. Still, there are some major differences, which we will discuss here.
Beyond different keyboards, which can be addressed by providing both operating systems’ keyboard key labels, creating, saving, and printing .pdf files require a different approach on Macs.
This book’s focus and screenshots are centered on MS Windows and MS Office applications, mainly for the following reasons:
- Statistics from the past 10 years suggest that the actual usage rates (not the sales rates) of users...
