Re: Adobe Acrobat Plugin

[notme]

WaltS48 wrote:

On 1/10/20 4:13 PM, no...@nonospam.org wrote:



WaltS48 wrote:

On 1/9/20 9:08 PM, no...@nonospam.org wrote:
I recently was forced to update my Adobe Acrobat Reader from v11 to 
v2019.021 (Reader DC) because I encountered an important .pdf file 
which wouldn't open in the older version.


I also have the Adobe Acrobat Plugin v19.21 activated on SeaMonkey 
v2.49.5.


Ever since installing the Acrobat Reader update, I've been having 
intermittent problems opening .pdf files in SeaMonkey. Sometimes the 
page will say "done", but the display will be blank. Sometimes 
re-loading the page corrects the problem, but not always. If I save 
the page to my desktop as a .pdf file, Acrobat Reader will open it 
in its own window.


I went into Preferences->Helper Applications and changed the 
settings to "Use Adobe Acrobat Reader DC". Now when I click on a 
.pdf file in a web page, the file opens properly but in a separate 
Acrobat Reader window. I would much prefer to have it open as before 
in the SeaMonkey window. How do I do that? Thanks!


John


Do you have the PDF viewer extension installed?

It should appear in the Actions column of Helper Applications and you 
can select it.


No, I was not aware of this extension. It only has been downloaded 46 
times and has no reviews, so I'm a bit hesitant to try it.


It wasn't required before, so why would it be required now? There 
ought to be a better way.


John


It is not required. Looks like it has 140 users to me.

 



The better way for me is to use Firefox which doesn't allow the Adobe 
Acrobat Plugin anymore and has a built-in PDF viewer.


I hope someone comes along with a solution to your problem.


This works! Thank you for your help.

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Re: Highly Confusing "Print To File" - Where does it go ?

[David E. Ross]

On 1/10/2020 7:33 PM, DoctorBill wrote:
> DoctorBill wrote:
>> DoctorBill wrote:
>>> I am asking here because a Google Search brought up implications that
>>> this is a specific Browser thing and not applicable to Windows 
>>> (7).(?)
>>>
>>> I was on my wife's Health Insurance web site (Fidelity) and found her
>>> "Claims Activity" link.   That goes to a HUGE List (she had cancer) which
>>> has a "Print" button.  Clicking THAT sends me to the print Options.
>>> One "Option" is  - PRINT TO FILE.
>>> Here is the problem . . . . . WHERE does the file get printed to ?
>>> NO choices are given to place - just File Name
>>>
>>> Looking for information on this on Google just brings up ALL SORTS of
>>> Gobble-De-Gook !  One opinion after another !   Mostly rubbish.
>>>
>>> Searching for the file name gets me no-where !
>>>
>>> Can someone point me in the right direction ?  I know it is OFF TOPIC.
>>> Sorry for that !
>>>
>>> DoctorBill
>> .
>> This is Posted AFTER I fingered out how to do what I want on THIS 
>> Windows 7 machine.
>> Most of the answers did not apply to what I am experiencing HERE.
>>
>> So - I looked up "Virtual Printers" on Google and found "Dopdf" - a FREE 
>> program to write
>> pdf files whan you check "Print to File".   I downloaded it and 
>> installed it.
>>
>> When I went to my Wife's Health Insurance Web Site and went to the 
>> Claims Page,
>> I invoked the list of claims and clicked "Print This" and got the 
>> Windows 7 Print Menu.
>> I chose as the printer "doPDF" which was now on the list of printers.
>> I clicked "Save to File" and got that same LINE - 'File Name'.. to 
>> fill in.
>> I entered C:/mywifesclaimfile and hit enter.
>>
>> The List I wanted was saved as a pdf to the C:/  (root)  directory.
>>
>> IT WORKED !  Probably work the same way on Windows 10.
>>
>> So.I fingered all this out myself.    Just had to educate myself (I 
>> have a PhD in Biochemistry) so I know how to do research - that's what a 
>> PhD Degree means.
>>
>> Thanks for the journey together guys !
>>
>> DoctorBill
> 
> For What It's Worth -
> 
> YOWSA ! - I loaded "DoPDF" onto my Windows 10 machine and now it appears 
> in the PRINT
> Dialog Box as a printer.   (it is a stand alone program also).
> Went to my Banking Site and got to all my Checking Account Activity for 
> a whole year.
> It had a "Print This" box above the list - so I checked it.
> Got the Print Dialog Box, chose DoPDF" and checked the "Print to File" box.
> Went thru new (to me) Windows 10 rig-a-marole and had to give it a name 
> and destination
> (is very different than Windows 7) ..
> Long story short - I now have A WHOLE YEAR of my checking Account on a 
> pdf file.
> You can pick the File quality too !
> Nice.
> 
> DoctorBill
> 

Windows 7
SeaMonkey 2.49.5
doPDF 10.6.121

I have been using doPDF for five years now, since version 7.3.398.  I do
NOT select "Print to file" on the SeaMonkey print dialogue.  Instead, I
use doPDF's own navigation dialogue to select a location and a name for
the output PDF file.

A few caveats when using doPDF in Windows:

*  Whatever name doPDF gives the resulting file, I find I must change it
slightly.  Otherwise, doPDF reverts to placing the result in
, where [myid] is my Windows
user ID.

*  When updating doPDF to a version with a different primary version
number -- for example, from 9.6.245 to 10.0.103 -- it is necessary to
remove the old version before installing the new version.  It is also
desirable to clean out preference variables (about:config) from Mozilla
applications where those variables contain the old primary version number.

*  Installing doPDF causes unnecessary plugins to be installed in
Microsoft Office applications.  Not only can this not be prevented, but
also attempts to remove those plugins afterwards will fail.  The plugins
can be removed from the Office applications, but they cannot be removed
from your PC.  They are unnecessary because printing from an Office
application will bring up a print dialogue that includes doPDF.

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Re: Highly Confusing "Print To File" - Where does it go ?

[Rink]

Op 11-1-2020 om 16:03 schreef mozilla-lists.mbou...@spamgourmet.com:

DoctorBill wrote:
So - I looked up "Virtual Printers" on Google and found "Dopdf" - a 
FREE program to write
pdf files whan you check "Print to File".   I downloaded it and 
installed it.


Yep, that's the kind of thing you need for printing to PDF on Windows. 
Another I've used is CutePDF.


I've also used PDFCreator in the past, but that one's probably best 
avoided now - last time I looked it was making the bundled adware and 
browser toolbars more and more difficult to avoid.




Just read the question and the answers.

I use pdf995.
Exist of two little software programs and is free.
No need for check Print to file, it just gives an extra choice in you 
printer choice.

So between the Canon and the Microsoft XPS Document Writer, etc.

http://www.pdf995.com/

I think it works the same as DoPDF.

Rink


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Re: Highly Confusing "Print To File" - Where does it go ?

[jrp]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 13:43:17 -0800, DoctorBill  in
mozilla.support.seamonkey wrote:

>I am asking here because a Google Search brought up implications that
>this is a specific Browser thing and not applicable to Windows (7).(?)
>
>I was on my wife's Health Insurance web site (Fidelity) and found her
>"Claims Activity" link.   That goes to a HUGE List (she had cancer) which
>has a "Print" button.  Clicking THAT sends me to the print Options.
>One "Option" is  - PRINT TO FILE.
>Here is the problem . . . . . WHERE does the file get printed to ?
>NO choices are given to place - just File Name
>
>Looking for information on this on Google just brings up ALL SORTS of
>Gobble-De-Gook !  One opinion after another !   Mostly rubbish.
>
>Searching for the file name gets me no-where !
>
>Can someone point me in the right direction ?  I know it is OFF TOPIC.
>Sorry for that !
>
>DoctorBill

Nothing Off-topic about your question.

i just tried it with win 64 on Seamonkey 2.49.3

worked like a charm!  created a pdf file of images from my tab
(about:memory) and wrote it where i said to put it.

Originally wanted to put it in "recent documents" which most likely would
have been under my win user name under subdirectory 
"USERS/name/documents"

default file name was the tab title + .pdf and the file opened with my pdf
reader associated with portable document files..

Hope you got yours straight.



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Re: Highly Confusing "Print To File" - Where does it go ?

[Ray_Net]

DoctorBill wrote on 11-01-20 03:29:

DoctorBill wrote:

Hartmut Figge wrote:

DoctorBill:

Hartmut Figge wrote:

Daniel:

Hartmut Figge wrote on 11/01/20 11:37:



Preference Name
   print.print_to_filename
Value
   /home/hafi/mozilla.pdf

Hartmut

Are you suggesting, Hartmut, that then, if DocBill were to 
Double-click
on that value (/home/hafi/mozilla.pdf in your case), DocBill 
should be

able to send the file wherever he wanted  say
C:\DocBill\Documents\TestResults.pdf ??


No. The goal was to determine filename and path of the file SM 
would be

printing to. Seeing the reply of Bill I have checked in in a new
profile. The pref is indeed not there.

It is created the first time the print dialog is opened.


A Ha !  Question - can I insert (edit) into the Config file what you
said should be there ?

i.e.  print_to_filename   blah   blah  blah   etc  in that 
Print_printer

blah blah area ?

Would that "program" into SM's config what I need ?


The only thing you need to do is to click on File > Print. :) that 
opens
the print dialog, creates the pref and allows you to choose filename 
and

path. Look at the replies of Walt.

I'm assuming here that in Win the print dialog is similar to Linux.

Hartmut


.
NO...it does not do that.  That is why I asked about it.
I described what it does when I posted this.
Nun Salva posted what I see.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/dlgbox/images/printdialogboxxp.png 





My Bad ! Sorry !  It doesn't even look that good !
I did a screensave and put together what I see.
https://i.postimg.cc/W4k58sw3/Save-to-File-Problem.jpg
Hope this clears it up somewhat


This is a Windows issue, not an SM issue.
"Print to file" option/method is very old and often used in the years 
1980's

First you select the printer AND AFTER you click on "print to file".
This is just to say: I want to convert my data to commands to sent to my 
"In your example to "Brother HL-2230 series""
BUT instead of sending those converted data to your printer, you just 
write those converted data RAW to a binary file.
the only thing you can do with this file is something like in a dos-box: 
copy (Name of file.prn) /b lpt1
with your "Brother HL-2230 series" printer connected to the PRT port 
(lpt1) of your computer.
If you connect another printer, per example "hp psc 1310 series (Copy 
1)" you will just print à page with full of garbage :-)


More infos; here:



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Re: Adobe Acrobat Plugin

[David E. Ross]

On 1/9/2020 6:08 PM, no...@nonospam.org wrote:
> I recently was forced to update my Adobe Acrobat Reader from v11 to 
> v2019.021 (Reader DC) because I encountered an important .pdf file which 
> wouldn't open in the older version.
> 
> I also have the Adobe Acrobat Plugin v19.21 activated on SeaMonkey v2.49.5.
> 
> Ever since installing the Acrobat Reader update, I've been having 
> intermittent problems opening .pdf files in SeaMonkey. Sometimes the 
> page will say "done", but the display will be blank. Sometimes 
> re-loading the page corrects the problem, but not always. If I save the 
> page to my desktop as a .pdf file, Acrobat Reader will open it in its 
> own window.
> 
> I went into Preferences->Helper Applications and changed the settings to 
> "Use Adobe Acrobat Reader DC". Now when I click on a .pdf file in a web 
> page, the file opens properly but in a separate Acrobat Reader window. I 
> would much prefer to have it open as before in the SeaMonkey window. How 
> do I do that? Thanks!
> 
> John
> 

I am using an older version of PDF Viewer.  It is 2.0.389, and I
installed it in SeaMonkey almost two years ago.  It works quite well.
If you want it, reply in this newsgroup thread.  I will then make it
available to you.

By the way, I have successfully (so far) avoided using the cloud for
anything.  Thus, I still use Adobe Reader 11.0.23, but not as a
SeaMonkey plug-in.

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Re: Highly Confusing "Print To File" - Where does it go ?

[mozilla-lists . mbourne]

DoctorBill wrote:

DoctorBill wrote:

I am asking here because a Google Search brought up implications that
this is a specific Browser thing and not applicable to Windows 
(7).(?)


Some applications provide their own options for exporting to PDF.  From 
a quick search it looks like Google's Chrome browser has such an option 
integrated with it's "Print" menu (I don't have it installed to check), 
so that's probably what claims that it's a browser-specific feature are 
based on.


The "print to file" option you describe is a Windows feature.  As others 
have mentioned, that basically just saves the data which would have been 
sent to the printer, which is usually in a printer-specific proprietary 
format and not really much use for anything.



I was on my wife's Health Insurance web site (Fidelity) and found her
"Claims Activity" link.   That goes to a HUGE List (she had cancer) which
has a "Print" button.  Clicking THAT sends me to the print Options.
One "Option" is  - PRINT TO FILE.
Here is the problem . . . . . WHERE does the file get printed to ?
NO choices are given to place - just File Name

Looking for information on this on Google just brings up ALL SORTS of
Gobble-De-Gook !  One opinion after another !   Mostly rubbish.

Searching for the file name gets me no-where !

Can someone point me in the right direction ?  I know it is OFF TOPIC.
Sorry for that !

DoctorBill

.
This is Posted AFTER I fingered out how to do what I want on THIS 
Windows 7 machine.

Most of the answers did not apply to what I am experiencing HERE.


It looks like there was initially a lot of confusion with differences 
between Linux and Windows!  The "Print" dialog of the GTK library used 
by some popular Linux applications provides a "Print to File" option to 
output to a PDF or Postscript file.  I think Windows 10 has a PDF 
virtual printer built in, which is seen by any application which can 
print as being just another printer.  Windows 7 doesn't have one built 
in (I'm not sure about Windows 8/8.1).


So - I looked up "Virtual Printers" on Google and found "Dopdf" - a FREE 
program to write
pdf files whan you check "Print to File".   I downloaded it and 
installed it.


Yep, that's the kind of thing you need for printing to PDF on Windows. 
Another I've used is CutePDF.


I've also used PDFCreator in the past, but that one's probably best 
avoided now - last time I looked it was making the bundled adware and 
browser toolbars more and more difficult to avoid.


When I went to my Wife's Health Insurance Web Site and went to the 
Claims Page,
I invoked the list of claims and clicked "Print This" and got the 
Windows 7 Print Menu.

I chose as the printer "doPDF" which was now on the list of printers.
I clicked "Save to File" and got that same LINE - 'File Name'.. to 
fill in.


With these virtual printers, it's not usually necessary to select "Save 
to File" since that's what it does anyway.  The virtual printer driver 
itself will prompt for the filename, usually with the normal file save 
dialog which makes it easier to browse directories, and often provides 
other options to control the output format.



I entered C:/mywifesclaimfile and hit enter.

The List I wanted was saved as a pdf to the C:/  (root)  directory.

IT WORKED !  Probably work the same way on Windows 10.


It would be similar, but I think Windows 10 already includes a PDF 
virtual printer so may not be necessary to install one first.  You 
probably still can though, if another one provides features you want 
which aren't included in the built-in one.


So.I fingered all this out myself.    Just had to educate myself (I 
have a PhD in Biochemistry) so I know how to do research - that's what a 
PhD Degree means.


Thanks for the journey together guys !

DoctorBill


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Re: Highly Confusing "Print To File" - Where does it go ?

[DoctorBill]

WaltS48 wrote:

On 1/10/20 10:33 PM, DoctorBill wrote:

DoctorBill wrote:

DoctorBill wrote:

I am asking here because a Google Search brought up implications that
this is a specific Browser thing and not applicable to Windows 
(7).(?)


I was on my wife's Health Insurance web site (Fidelity) and found her
"Claims Activity" link.   That goes to a HUGE List (she had cancer) 
which

has a "Print" button.  Clicking THAT sends me to the print Options.
One "Option" is  - PRINT TO FILE.
Here is the problem . . . . . WHERE does the file get printed to ?
NO choices are given to place - just File Name

Looking for information on this on Google just brings up ALL SORTS of
Gobble-De-Gook !  One opinion after another !   Mostly rubbish.

Searching for the file name gets me no-where !

Can someone point me in the right direction ?  I know it is OFF TOPIC.
Sorry for that !

DoctorBill

.
This is Posted AFTER I fingered out how to do what I want on THIS 
Windows 7 machine.

Most of the answers did not apply to what I am experiencing HERE.

So - I looked up "Virtual Printers" on Google and found "Dopdf" - a 
FREE program to write
pdf files whan you check "Print to File".   I downloaded it and 
installed it.


When I went to my Wife's Health Insurance Web Site and went to the 
Claims Page,
I invoked the list of claims and clicked "Print This" and got the 
Windows 7 Print Menu.

I chose as the printer "doPDF" which was now on the list of printers.
I clicked "Save to File" and got that same LINE - 'File Name'.. 
to fill in.

I entered C:/mywifesclaimfile and hit enter.

The List I wanted was saved as a pdf to the C:/  (root)  directory.

IT WORKED !  Probably work the same way on Windows 10.

So.I fingered all this out myself.    Just had to educate myself 
(I have a PhD in Biochemistry) so I know how to do research - that's 
what a PhD Degree means.


Thanks for the journey together guys !

DoctorBill


For What It's Worth -

YOWSA ! - I loaded "DoPDF" onto my Windows 10 machine and now it 
appears in the PRINT

Dialog Box as a printer.   (it is a stand alone program also).
Went to my Banking Site and got to all my Checking Account Activity 
for a whole year.

It had a "Print This" box above the list - so I checked it.
Got the Print Dialog Box, chose DoPDF" and checked the "Print to File" 
box.
Went thru new (to me) Windows 10 rig-a-marole and had to give it a 
name and destination

(is very different than Windows 7) ..
Long story short - I now have A WHOLE YEAR of my checking Account on a 
pdf file.

You can pick the File quality too !
Nice.

DoctorBill



Great news!

Just curious. What do you use to open and read those files?


.
They are pdf - so I use Adobe Acrobat.
I supposedly will also convert to other file formats. Haven't tried THAT 
yet.

It is also a standalone program.?

Just what I wanted.  Something to "get" a list in the nice List Format, but
be able to see it BEFORE unleashing it onto the printer.

DoctorBill
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Re: Highly Confusing "Print To File" - Where does it go ?

[WaltS48]

On 1/10/20 10:33 PM, DoctorBill wrote:

DoctorBill wrote:

DoctorBill wrote:

I am asking here because a Google Search brought up implications that
this is a specific Browser thing and not applicable to Windows 
(7).(?)


I was on my wife's Health Insurance web site (Fidelity) and found her
"Claims Activity" link.   That goes to a HUGE List (she had cancer) 
which

has a "Print" button.  Clicking THAT sends me to the print Options.
One "Option" is  - PRINT TO FILE.
Here is the problem . . . . . WHERE does the file get printed to ?
NO choices are given to place - just File Name

Looking for information on this on Google just brings up ALL SORTS of
Gobble-De-Gook !  One opinion after another !   Mostly rubbish.

Searching for the file name gets me no-where !

Can someone point me in the right direction ?  I know it is OFF TOPIC.
Sorry for that !

DoctorBill

.
This is Posted AFTER I fingered out how to do what I want on THIS 
Windows 7 machine.

Most of the answers did not apply to what I am experiencing HERE.

So - I looked up "Virtual Printers" on Google and found "Dopdf" - a 
FREE program to write
pdf files whan you check "Print to File".   I downloaded it and 
installed it.


When I went to my Wife's Health Insurance Web Site and went to the 
Claims Page,
I invoked the list of claims and clicked "Print This" and got the 
Windows 7 Print Menu.

I chose as the printer "doPDF" which was now on the list of printers.
I clicked "Save to File" and got that same LINE - 'File Name'.. to 
fill in.

I entered C:/mywifesclaimfile and hit enter.

The List I wanted was saved as a pdf to the C:/  (root)  directory.

IT WORKED !  Probably work the same way on Windows 10.

So.I fingered all this out myself.    Just had to educate myself 
(I have a PhD in Biochemistry) so I know how to do research - that's 
what a PhD Degree means.


Thanks for the journey together guys !

DoctorBill


For What It's Worth -

YOWSA ! - I loaded "DoPDF" onto my Windows 10 machine and now it appears 
in the PRINT

Dialog Box as a printer.   (it is a stand alone program also).
Went to my Banking Site and got to all my Checking Account Activity for 
a whole year.

It had a "Print This" box above the list - so I checked it.
Got the Print Dialog Box, chose DoPDF" and checked the "Print to File" box.
Went thru new (to me) Windows 10 rig-a-marole and had to give it a name 
and destination

(is very different than Windows 7) ..
Long story short - I now have A WHOLE YEAR of my checking Account on a 
pdf file.

You can pick the File quality too !
Nice.

DoctorBill



Great news!

Just curious. What do you use to open and read those files?

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Re: Highly Confusing "Print To File" - Where does it go ?

[Nuno Silva]

On 2020-01-11, DoctorBill wrote:

[...]
> .
> I tried to put a PATH into the Filename - like
> C:/blahblah
> and THAT went to the C - root directory - but was unreadable by Open
> office,
> NotePad and Acrobat.   It is a strange kind of file. (?)
> I then tried giving it an extension .prn.   Same result even with a
> .prn ext.

(What is saved by the "print to file" option is what would be sent to
the printer - the file will be in the format/language used by the
printer driver, which can be closed/proprietary/undocumented.)

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Re: Adobe Acrobat Plugin

[Dirk Fieldhouse]

On 10/01/20 22:20, WaltS48 wrote:

On 1/10/20 4:13 PM, no...@nonospam.org wrote:



WaltS48 wrote:

On 1/9/20 9:08 PM, no...@nonospam.org wrote:
I recently was forced to update my Adobe Acrobat Reader from v11 to 
v2019.021 (Reader DC) because I encountered an important .pdf file 
which wouldn't open in the older version.


This is the sort  of file that the Mozilla pdf.js viewer probably won't 
be able to handle.


...		 I would much prefer to have it open as before 
in the SeaMonkey window. How do I do that? Thanks!


Install an up-to-date version of the pdf.js viewer extension, as below, 
which will handle most PDFs in a browser window or tab as if they were 
real HTML; use its "Open in another viewer" function if it doesn't show 
the PDF properly: that allows you to open a downloaded PDF in Acrobat 
Reader or whichever PDF tool you select.



...

No, I was not aware of this extension. It only has been downloaded 46 
times and has no reviews, so I'm a bit hesitant to try it.


That's just the SM version. The FF version was long ago adopted into the 
browser package.



...


It is not required. Looks like it has 140 users to me.

 



The better way for me is to use Firefox which doesn't allow the Adobe 
Acrobat Plugin anymore and has a built-in PDF viewer.


.. ie, the same add-on that is linked above in its SM version, but

shipped with the browser.

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Re: Highly Confusing "Print To File" - Where does it go ?

[Dirk Fieldhouse]

On 10/01/20 21:43, DoctorBill wrote:

I am asking here because a Google Search brought up implications that
this is a specific Browser thing and not applicable to Windows (7).(?)


No. It's a Windows thing.


I was on my wife's Health Insurance web site (Fidelity) and found her
"Claims Activity" link.   That goes to a HUGE List (she had cancer) which
has a "Print" button.  Clicking THAT sends me to the print Options.
One "Option" is  - PRINT TO FILE.
Here is the problem . . . . . WHERE does the file get printed to ?
NO choices are given to place - just File Name
...


If you select that checkbox, Windows will prompt you for a filename when 
printing. Maybe in new versions it uses a better GUI but it used to be 
just a text entry dialog box. However it will just send the same data 
stream that it would have sent to the printer port to the file, whereas 
you probably want a PDF or PostScript file.


For that you have to install a specific virtual printer, and from the 
thread I see you found out how to do that for PDF in Windows 7 (and 8.0, 
and earlier), using DoPDF -- alternatives exist; Windows 10 has a 
built-in 'Microsoft Print to PDF' virtual printer. For PostScript you 
can use a generic PostScript printer to 'FILE:'.


The XPS printer that you see listed is a similar thing for the XPS 
format, a Microsoft competitor to PDF.


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Re: Highly Confusing "Print To File" - Where does it go ?

[Nuno Silva]

On 2020-01-11, DoctorBill wrote:

> Nuno Silva wrote:
[...]
>> I think what you (WaltS48) are describing is a different feature, the
>> "print to file" option in the GTK print dialog, which (at least here) is
>> shown as if it were a printer itself (in the list of printers or
>> printing methods which are available).
>>
>> What DoctorBill is describing sounds like the "Print to file" checkbox
>> in the Windows print dialog. This option, instead of sending the data to
>> the printer, will store it in a file.
>>
>> In my experience, the "File:" prompt will accept a full path, that is,
>> starting from a "drive letter" and with directories, say,
>> A:\dir\example.dat.
>>
>> Screenshots:
>> - Windows:
>> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/dlgbox/images/printdialogboxxp.png
>> - GTK 3: https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/printdialog.png
>>
> OKYes - I am talking about the first screenshot that you labeled
> "windows" - THAT is what I see.
> The second one "GTK"  - ??

(The GTK dialog is the one that appears in GNU/Linux systems.)

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Nuno Silva
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