So to achieve the same effect when you're in the Print dialog instead of choosing 'Save as PDF.' from the drop down menu rather hit the 'Preview' button, which opens the PDF in the Preview application. The Quartz filters are still available on the Save dialog box in the Preview application (above). However, digging around a little bit I discovered a work-around.
The video tip was made with Tiger it seems a little bit ironic that they would release it now with a feature that is no longer available in Leopard. The Print dialog ColorSync access to Quartz filters has disappeared in Leopard. So I thought I'd give it a try on some of my own documents. In their example, without the filter the resulting PDF is 5.3MB and with the filter it's only 632KB. In their example they make a PDF from a Keynote presentation containing lots of graphics, and substantially reduce its size by selecting the 'Reduce File Size' Quartz filter in the ColorSync options of the Print Dialog before choosing 'Save as PDF.' from the PDF drop-down menu. Apple has an interesting video tip up this week on reducing the file size of graphic intensive PDFs created from the Print dialog.
