[ale] Likely OT: print to usable file in WinXP

[Phil Turmel]

On 07/08/2014 11:02 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
> On 2014-07-08 19:17, Ken Cochran wrote:
>> (Sorry for the OT but I don't really know where else to ask.  {sigh})
>>
>> Hey folks, how can I print-to-file (to something usable like
>> .pdf) in the WindowsXP print dialog?  Looks like what I need
>> is some kind of "virtual" printer driver/pgm.  Would prefer
>> something F/OSS of course (hopefully for safety's sake -
>> no mal/adware, etc.).  What do you folks recommend and/or
>> recommend against?
> 
> CutePDF writer.  Uses ghostscript as its backend.  There's another one,
> too, that's installed at work, I'll have to look it up when I can
> remember its name.

I've been a happy user of PDFcreator for many years (even if only in VMs
lately).  The ability to hold multiple print jobs and then join them
into one PDF is particularly useful.

http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator

Phil