Re: PDF printing from Win2K via OS X/VPC


"Paul Power" <paulkpower@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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mmmmark wrote:
I don't have a definite answer, but maybe this info can help you.

At my house, I share my printers from my Mac via windows sharing over
wifi
and a Dell laptop that my wife uses can print to this printer by just
typing
in the IP address of the sharing Mac which basically mounts that drive in
the network neighborhood.

I'm not sure how you'd funnel the print request to the PDF subsystem,
since
in my case the Dell laptop has to have at least a rudimentary printer
driver
(and there is not "print to PDF" button like there is on a Mac). The
driver
I picked in Windows is usually an Apple Color Laserwriter, which makes it
nearly foolproof and compatible with Postscript output.

What you might be able to do is to print in Windows to a file via this PC
driver. Then transfer this .prn or .ps file to the Mac and drag the
postscript file to Preview to create the PDF.

What I don't know is how to share the printer across VPC.

Let me know if this helps at all and good luck.

-Mark

"Dave Minerath" <dave_minerath@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm running a Windows 2000 environment on Virtual PC 7 for Mac. What I
would like to do is print to PDF from within Windows using the OS X PDF
printing capability. The PDF file can go to the Mac or PC.

Is this possible?

Thanks,
Dave



In Windows, all you have to do is download and install the PDF printer
driver from Adobe.


Paul, AFAIK, you can't create PDFs in Windows using the PDF printer driver
unless you have a for-charge version of Acrobat. You can use Ghostscript or
other opensource solutions, however.

If you are referring to PDFWriter which was included with Acrobat through
5.x, it is also not available for free. I wouldn't recommend it unless you
don't care about quality and accuracy. It uses a different technique and is
a "bastardized" version of PDF anyway.

-Mark



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