Printer Capture

Hi,

Not a programming question, but I know the resources here are extraordinary.
Does anyone know of way or perhaps a third party plug-in that will capture
what is being sent to the printer from any application, and create a Word
document or perhaps Excel document, just like Adobe does?

I'm envisioning something in the printer choices that you could choose to do
this. So what is exactly being sent to print (original's formatting, etc.)
is captured.

Thanks,
Fred

You can always install a new printer:

Settings > Control Panel > Printers > Install New Printer and select the
port to be FILE. I have only used this for Generic/Text Only. When you
print to the new printer, Windows will ask to to assign a file.

It is possible to define the printer as PostScript. This would certainly
get richer formatting than just text only. But then you would need a tool to
convert the PostScript to RTF to get it back into Word.
--
Gary's Student


"Fred Ernst" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Not a programming question, but I know the resources here are extraordinary.
> Does anyone know of way or perhaps a third party plug-in that will capture
> what is being sent to the printer from any application, and create a Word
> document or perhaps Excel document, just like Adobe does?
>
> I'm envisioning something in the printer choices that you could choose to do
> this. So what is exactly being sent to print (original's formatting, etc.)
> is captured.
>
> Thanks,
> Fred
>
>
>
>