Print To File

[Guest]

Using Windows XP Professional.

I have been using the "Print To File" option on the standard Print dialog
box to save web pages. These get stored with a file type of "File". The
question is: how can you then view and/ or print these to a printer? Double
clicking the file brings up a request from the OS to choose a program with
which to open the file - nothing seems to be able to read it.

I have tried dragging the file to a Printer listed in the "Printer and
Faxes" folder of the Control Panel, but the OS says I can't do that.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance for any replies.

 

[ANONYMOUS]

You need to go into command prompt by doing this:

Start, Run

now type cmd in the box

Now cd to the folder where the file is stored/saved eg. cd temp

now type: copy myfile lpt1

The above command assumes your file name is MyFile (no extension) and
that the printer is on LPT port.

You can't view these files on the screen.

hth

 

[Guest]

Thanks! Mystery solved!

You need to go into command prompt by doing this:

Start, Run

now type cmd in the box

Now cd to the folder where the file is stored/saved eg. cd temp

now type: copy myfile lpt1

The above command assumes your file name is MyFile (no extension) and
that the printer is on LPT port.

You can't view these files on the screen.

hth