Print to File

[ann]

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How do you add "Print to FIle" to printers without having
to choose a driver?

 

[Guest]

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You cannot create a printer file without specifying a printer driver. By
definition, a printer file is intended to be used as input for a
particular printer so that the printer output is the same as if an
application such as Word, together with Windows, the operating system
had printed it to a connected printer. Thus, the printer file is
typically the output of a specified printer driver diverted into an
appropriately encoded file.

Once the printer file is created, you can print it to the appropriate
printer using DOS copy commands.

Open a command window (DOS window) by typing navigating to the Start Run
slot and typing

cmd

in the slot. Press enter. Type

copy /b <filename> where <filename> id the fully-qualified DOS
path to the file.

e.g
copy /b c:\tempfiles\letter.prt where letter.prt is the
file from the print to file command and tempfiles is a directory on c:
which holds the output.

You might find PrintFile useful.
http://hem.passagen.se/ptlerup/prfile.html



Tom
MSMVP-DTS

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: How do you add "Print to FIle" to printers without having
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