You’re not lying. You are printing it as a PDF. Your electronic buddy doesn’t see a difference.

Beyond that, also, what’s so hard about clicking on “File > Export As… > PDF” which is literally in the file menu on LibreOffice at the very least. I don’t know about MS Office, but I would assume it’s the same.

I’m going to assume you’re on the younger side. That’s a relatively recent thing. For many many years we had to install PDF printers.

Also the PDF printer is generic, but the export has to implemented for each application individually.

CutePDF was the best.

cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf/writer.asp

Started out with it in XP.