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With more and more of the world going paperless all the time, Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) has taken over much of the architecture and construction industry as the preferred file format for sharing drawings. In fact, many estimators and contractors that I work with don't have the ability to work with anything else. I'd love to just give them my BIM file but that's another rant for another time. For some of us, this could mean having to purchase (or subscribe to) the Adobe Creative Cloud to get or buy to be able to create PDF's. Granted, these professional programs allow you to do much more than simply create PDF's, but the cost of entry is fairly high.
There is an alternative. I've recently found a free open source PDF printer that solves a few problems called PDFwriter for Mac. While the Macintosh has a built-in PDF creator, it's lacking in several ways when it comes to creating large format PDF's. Of course this isn't a mainstream problem, so typical users won't see the value in this tutorial. But for us working in the industry, this is a big pain in the ass. The main problem with the built-in solution is that it forces you to click through several extra steps to print to a PDF by using the little pull-down menu in the lower left corner of the Print dialog to create one. Another problem is that it's not available in some programs (as you'll see below).
On top of that, printing large format can be problematic. PDFwriter acts like any other installed printer and can be used for any kind of PDF creation. It takes steps out of the process by allowing you to just hit Command+P and Enter if you're in the PDF print-making assembly line process. It also gives you the benefit of having large format paper sizes so you can print drawings to scale which then allows you to email them to someone expecting to do scaled take-offs or plot the files for you at a service bureau.