David Nelson Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Can anyone explain why these are different? Maybe it has to do with platform? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comment Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Could you elaborate on your question? It's not clear what type of answer you are expecting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nelson Posted December 7, 2015 Author Share Posted December 7, 2015 I never know which to use in different situations and Print has button called PDF and one of its options is 'save as pdf' and I do not know if that is same as Save As PDF script step; I am unclear when to use one or the other. Print to PDF is faster when testing but that is local. I do not know what happens with network printer. I think one difference I just read is that Save As PDF allows variables. and it allows appends I also read some people export to PDF and I cannot figure out how they do that but I decided to keep my question simpler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comment Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 (edited) 18 minutes ago, David Nelson said: Print has button called PDF and one of its options is 'save as pdf' This is a Mac OS X feature (available in all applications). It does not exist in Windows (AFAIK), unless you have installed a PDF "printer". If you want to provide a cross-platform feature for your users, use the Save As PDF script step. ---Edit: Apparently Windows 10 has added a system-native PDF printer. Still, using the Save As PDF script step you can control many aspects which would otherwise depend on user selection - e.g. file name, location and - most importantly - the choice of PDF over a physical printout. Edited December 7, 2015 by comment 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nelson Posted December 7, 2015 Author Share Posted December 7, 2015 Now that makes sense. I searched for hours and found nothing about it. Much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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