Latest instructions available on Apple's Mac support website. As technical support for the efile site, we recommend following Apple's instructions for their devices/products. To view our recommended PDF settings to avoid errors, click here.
NOTE: These instructions apply to MacOS Ventura (OS version 13) and newer versions. Please ensure that your computer is updated to the most recent operating system software. Users of older versions of MacOS will want to print their corrected documents out and re-scan them in as PDF files.
- On your Mac, open the document you want to save as a PDF.
- Choose File > Print.
- Click the PDF button or click the down arrow to open the PDF pop-up menu, then choose Save as PDF.
- The PDF pop-up menu showing the PDF commands, including Save as PDF.
- Choose a name and location for the PDF file. Enter the information you want in the Title, Author, Subject, and Keywords fields.
If your documents submission fail, you may need to Export as a new PDF.
Choose File > Export
Name your document and choose a location for the PDF file, then choose Save.
Please Note: The steps to Export the PDF does not flatten documents, it just saves it again as a PDF. May also not be available on forms with fillable fields.