Print PDF Menu and Shortcuts

Hi,
I've looked around online and not been able to find any answers. So this might not be possible, but thought it worth checking on here.
I often print files as PDFs so I'd like to be able to do this using keyboard shortcuts. Pressing ⌘P brings up the print dialogue box, and pressing ⏎ then prints to a printer. Tabbing takes me through the various printing options, but doesn't take focus to the PDF menu at any point and I can't seem to set a working shortcut up to 'Save as PDF...'.
Is it possible to create a personalised keyboard shortcut to 'Save as PDF...' or any of the other PDF print options. It would be great if this was possible as I use 'Save PDF to Web Receipts Folder' quite regularly too.
Thanks

Mark Griffin wrote:
It's fairly straightforward to do this. See this hint: Shortcuts for Print - PDF menu. I set the Print as PDF... shortcut to ⌘P. So to print to a PDF in an application, I hit ⌘P to open the print dialog and then ⌘P again to save it as a PDF. Works in all the basic apps - TextEdit, Safari, Mail, MS apps, etc.
This works on my MPB in 10.6 as well. Post back and let us know if this works for you.
Mark G.
that's a very neat trick. thanks for sharing.

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