Dave,
If you are asking about Publisher Sets, you can set the destination by right clicking on the Set Title Header and it will open a dialogue which has a place to set a default path for save location. If you are asking about saving individual PDF's then no you can't.
Cheers,
Gerald Hoffman
“The simplification of anything is always sensational” GKC
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