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I use a program that won't let me print to PDF, only directly to a printer. If I try to print to PDF using CutePDF for example, it prints out a blank page that says the feature is not supported. However, I need to print to PDF so I can transfer the document to another computer that has a printer connected to it.
How does the program know if I'm printing to a PDF or directly to a printer? Is there a way to spoof this so I'm allowed to print to PDF? What is technically different between the two?
danjonweb
Posted 2013-04-15T00:08:58.520
Reputation: 121
Perhaps its CutePDF that is not supporting something. Try another free PDF printer. I recommend the MyPDF Converter. Just be careful to decline all the "Install ??? Hot Bar" requests that come with it during the installation, it can ruin your computer. – Havenard – 2013-04-15T00:24:00.600
1If CutePDF can handle PostScript input, you can install a dummy PostScript printer on your computer, select it as the active printer, tell the program to print but tell it to put the output into a file, then lastly tell CutePDF to convert the output file into a PDF. – martineau – 2013-04-15T01:39:23.320
A similar idea would be to print to the Microsoft XPS Document Writer and then afterwards go into the XPS viewer and print to the CutePDF virtual printer from there. – martineau – 2013-04-15T01:45:00.707
I've now tried all of these ideas to no avail. I tried MyPDF...it knows. It knows when I'm using XPS Document Writer. It even knows when I set up a fake PostScript printer. How is this possible? – danjonweb – 2013-04-15T03:13:47.903
It seems martineau has provided the best solution. – Ramhound – 2013-04-15T11:12:10.630
Have you tried installing a dummy printer queue (of the same type as the final destination printer) and using the "print to file" function? – Harry Johnston – 2013-04-30T04:33:20.973