Hi, 2018-05-22 17:07 GMT+02:00 DaveB <[email protected]>:
> Using the previous 5.2 edition of this chapter as a basis for revision, > I see that under "Printing Options" it reads: "The printer (from the > printers available). The Print to File printer is now always available > and will generate a PDF file that you save on your disk." This is a > possible option available on some systems, but on other systems there is > no option and the user will get a PRN file, normally based on the > his/her default printer settings. Since this guide is geared towards > inexperienced users who are unlikely to know what to do with a PRN file, > or have software necessary to process it, I propose to remove the "Print > to File" reference from this chapter. I would have proposed referring > the reader to a more detailed guide, such as the Writer Guide, but that > also has the same issue. > > Any thoughts, or alternative proposals? > > Well, on macOS that is a possibility, to print to a file - it actually opens a print dialog, but there you can select printing to a pdf file ... It is actually not like exporting to a pdf file - a simple example: you can print a document with comments printed on the page border (which is an option for printing on a physical printer) which you cannot do when exporting to a pdf file. Since there is a problem/bug exporting comments in pdf files on macOS (I reported a bug in bugzilla), this is a useful option. Lp, m. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
