How to "print" a PDF on a Mac so that is automatically sent by AirDrop to an iOS device?

I heavily use my iPad Pro with pencil to go paperless. This works perfectly, but printing to paper from any Mac app is still much simpler than printing to the "paper-replacement", meaning to an iPad app. I am therefore looking for a mechanism to make this equally simple.

Currently, I open the "Print" dialog in any Mac program, click on "Open PDF in Preview", then in the Preview app "Share via AirDrop", wait a moment until my iPad appears, find it, click it and then select on the iPad into which application to copy the document.

Is there a way to automate this? Automator on Mac has no "share via AirDrop" action (even though it was announced on the WWDC a while ago).

Solution 1:

If you actually use iCloud & iCloud Drive, Print to PDF and then save the PDF to iCloud and it will show on your iPad. Thats why iCloud Drive is there.

Or if you just have to use AirDrop, then:

Why not print to PDF then share the PDF via AirDrop?

It appears to be much easier using either method than to create an automation to get the same effects.