Pages 8.1 Export to PDF... shortcut

Different apps have different names for the menu item. Apps such as Mail uses "Export to PDF…" but Pages uses "PDF…" I use the same keyboard combo (⌘ ⌃ P, command + control + p) for both & it works for me. I have the "Export to PDF…" under all applications but "PDF…" under Pages in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts.

Hi Peggy,

Just a note that it is an ellipsis (option + semicolon) following PDF… and not three periods, as some may assume. I have been using a custom keyboard shortcut like this for awhile. After the shortcut, it is two returns to take the defaults, and output the PDF.

The only downside to the export panel is that it does not export the PDF with the .pdf extension displayed in the Finder — unless it is explicitly added in the panel.

Wasn't being a critic, as I know that you used an ellipsis. Historically, I have helped others in the past that tried three periods before I pointed out that it was an ellipsis. Just mentioned it for other readers of the post, current and future.

I ALWAYS use an ellipsis & did so in typing my response here. If it is now 3 dots, the forum software did it, not me!

Hi Peggy,

I think the "as some may assume" in Viking's reply was referring to others reading the post, not to your possible

use of ... in place of … The …s in your post are definitely ellipses, easily detectable by placing the | a couple of characters ahead of them, pressing the mouse button, and dragging slowly right to select the text one character at a time. Three periods will be added to the selection (and highlighted) one at a time; the three dots of an ellipsis will all be selected simultaneously, as a single character.

Regards,

Barry

The issue I had was that Viking specifically addressed the reply to me & implied that I had used three dots not an ellipsis.

Then just post a general FYI, not addressed to a specific person.