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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?
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