

I do realize one can copy the directory and create your own text document. However, just as a post indicated above, very frustrating that the directory won’t print alphabetically but as some kind of random order that is hard to figure out “why”. Gee, it took me all these years to decide to search for a way to print a directory…and I found your instructions. I lamented for years over this loss and decided it was just something that I would never be able to do again. A terminal window should open, but if not you can use CMD + N. Not sure which system upgrade got rid of the print option, but it was the beginning of Apple’s paring down of convenient actions. Open Terminal (type Terminal into Spotlight or open from the Applications -> Utilities folder). Fairly certain it would not do the subset folders, even if they were open in your directory. It included icons (folders or files so you could tell what was what), and it was so convenient, especially for a backup indexing system (you know, the old-fashioned paper way of filing a print out with CD/DVD backups) and the print out looked exactly like your directory, icons and all. Many, many years ago up until perhaps the mid 2000s, Apple had a menu option to print a directory. See also Add effects to a PDF in Preview on Mac Resize, rotate, or flip an image in Preview on Mac Save a document as a PDF on Mac. (Don’t choose Export as PDF.) Click the Quartz Filter pop-up menu, then choose Reduce File Size.

John, Thanks so much for these instructions. In the Preview app on your Mac, open the PDF that you want to compress.
