Printing to a file

[John Abbott]

On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 22:51 +0000, R Kimber wrote:

> On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:58:59 +0100
> Sascha Effert wrote:
> 
> > If you hit the print button in your application you should should be
> > able to choose between different printer, one is called "print to file"
> > or something similiar (do not know exactly, here it is in german). You
> > do not have to set up a printer manually for that.
> 
> But that's my problem, there doesn't seem to be any such option.
> 
> I'm less concerned about the format of the printed file, as I can probably
> convert it to another format once it is on disk.  The problem arose when I
> tried to print from a webpage in Firefox.  The default printer doesn't
> allow printing to a file, and nor does the setup process for a second
> printer.
> 
> - Richard.
> -- 
> Richard Kimber
> Political Science Resources
> http://www.PoliticsResources.net/
> 


You should be able to enter  <Ctl-P> from the web browser and evoke the
print wizard.  You can select the format from there.
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