What does Print to File Mean

[Chad Harris]

I don't understand what Print To File means on the general print dialogue box and is this connected with or impacted by the Prefernces button located to the right of it?

TIA,


Chad Harris

 

[Wislu Plethora]

-----Original Message-----
I don't understand what Print To File means on the

general print dialogue box and is this connected with or
impacted by the Prefernces button located to the right of
it?

TIA,


Chad Harris

From MS Word Help, which you probably could have looked up
yourself:

If you want to print your document at a much higher
resolution than what's available on your desktop printer,
you can select a different printer in the Print dialog
box, format your document, print your document to a file,
and take the file to a computer connected to the printer
you selected, such as a service bureau. A printer file
saves the necessary information from your document so that
line and page breaks and font spacing remain the same. Any
printer that uses the same printer language (for example,
PostScript) can print the file and match the output from
your computer, provided that the fonts used in the
document are available on the printer. Also, when you use
a printer file, you can print your document from a
computer that doesn't have Word installed.

 

[Chad Harris]

Wislu--

Thanks much. I might have thought of Word Help if I'd had word open at the
time. I also could have gone to a search engine or the Office site
directly, but I wanted to get an experienced answer. Appreciate it.

Best regards,

Chad Harris

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