To use, I now press ⌘P followed by ⌘S and I’m in the save dialog and can save my PDF. Set the Menu Title to “Save as PDF” and set the keyboard shortcut to ⌘S/ We can use ⌘S as the Save menu item on File is disabled when the print dialog is active and so it doesn’t clash. To add a shortcut, simply select App Shortcuts and click on the button. If you are using Safari, you can just right click and choose 'save as '.

What I didn’t realise is that the PDF drop-down list on the print dialog is considered a menu too and so can be targeted with a shortcut key. If you are using something like preview or most any other app you can just hold Cmd + Shift + S, and it will do a save as. A little shorter is to use CTRL + SHIFT + S to do Save As. Here is the usual way: menu File > Save As > Click on Format > Find PNG in the list and select it > Save > PNG Interlace dialog > OK.

This is one of those underrated clever features of macOS in my opinion and I love it. Classical situation: youre working in Photoshop on a PSD file and you want a to export it to PNG or JPG. In System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> App Shortcuts you can create a keyboard shortcut to any menu item in any Mac application.

I recently discovered that I could create a keyboard shortcut to make this much easier. I regularly print to PDF on my Mac, This is done from the print dialog by selecting Save as PDF from the drop down in the bottom left of the dialog which is a bit of a pain to get using the mouse.

Shortcut for save image as on mac