Membranophonist’s Ramblings

For as long as I can remember, OmniWeb has been able to directly save pages as PDF files. Just hold down Option and select “Save As PDF…” from the File menu.

I recently stumbled on a minor feature that makes this a bit more useful:

If you select text before saving a page as a PDF, the highlight will be included in the PDF. You can use this to call attention to a section of text in the context of the entire page. With online purchase receipts, you can highlight the serial number before saving the page, making it easier to visually locate it if need be.

The only problem is that the highlight color is the user’s highlight color. This could cause a bit of confusion when the user opens the PDF, selects a different block of text, and then copies it. Which block was copied? Perhaps the application could use a color not among those in the System Preferences -> Appearance -> Highlight Color menu.

To my knowledge, this does not work in any application using Print -> Save as PDF.