Leopard: Updates to Save As PDF

A few days ago I noticed some pretty cool new functionality in the Save To PDF command from the new Leopard print dialog:

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If you choose Save As PDF from the PDF button at the bottom:

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You’ll get the save dialog, with some great new features:

Save As PDF Dialog.png

You can now set the title, author, subject, and keywords of a pdf file.

Even more impressive, if you click on the Security Options… button, this dialog appears:

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You can password protect your pdf document, as well as set a password to copy text, images, or other content. You can also set a password to allow printing of the document.

These are all pretty cool new features that weren’t available in Tiger, and to Adobe’s chagrin, alleviate some need to buy Acrobat Professional.