In other words, when you go to print something, be it a document from Microsoft Office for Mac, a Web page, or an email, the print dialog box allows you to specify “Save as PDF” too, and that’s the best, fastest and most powerful way to proceed. Word has the ability to save in PDF format, as you’ll see in a moment, but I have to say that my preference for creating PDF on a Mac system regardless of the program is to use the printer driver. Modern PDF viewers allow you to annotate (as Preview does on the Mac, for example, allowing you to add virtual post-its of arbitrary length, circle items, etc) but won’t let clients actually change the source document. I completely understand how your boss is thinking with this and concur completely that it’s a best practice to work on documents in a word processor like Microsoft Word or Apple Pages, then share the documents for commentary, annotation and approval in portable document format (PDF) form.
