Save as PDF instead of PNG

Greetings,
I want to be able to direct save as a PDF when using the apple shift 3, 4 etc commands. Reading support it says that it does save a PDF but it saves as something called PNG. Is there something I am missing?
//Cheers

Thanks for the responses. I did a search on the web and on this board and the wird thing is that ut seems that this default changed after the 10.4.1 update. They say there are some terminal scripts that can change these defaults such as this one:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type pdf
or back to normal with
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type png
but that still doesn't work.
Either way, I guess PNG will have to work because that still shows on the desktop as a nice picture of what you are grabbing and of course if you save as PDF it just show the generic PDF with no picture, thus probably the PNG format.
However, does a PC understand the PNG file if I send it to a PC user?
//Cheers

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