Anyone know of a shortcut to automatically Print to PDF?

I just want to dispense with the three step process to do a Print to PDF - hold my tongue right or something so that I can, say, Command, Alt, Shift, Option, Wiggle, P to get pass the dialogs.
Anyone know of a setting or preference that allows me to do this - greatly appreciated.
Working towards a 'paperless' as in less paper, office and home.
Al

In Finder's Help, enter "Printing by dragging documents" as the search terms and see if any of the discussion presented therein will be of any utility to you. I'm thinking you could create a PDF desktop printer on your desktop and just drag the document of interest onto it.

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