If you’re on Win10 it includes a PDF virtual printer. (they’ve had a virtual XPS printer for a decade or more and finally gave up the fight over formats)
However, you might have to enable it (Turn Windows Features On and Off) and then add it as a printer in Devices > Printers & Scanners. Regards, Adrien > On Oct 8, 2019 w41d281, at 1:31 AM, Stan Brown <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 2019-10-07 19:06, Rich Shepard wrote: >> I've looked through the guide without finding any information on paying >> invoices and printing the checks to a pdf file. I'd like to do this and >> transfer the .pdf to a host directly connected to the laser printer. >> >> I've not tried this using gnucash and don't recall seeing that option when >> paying bills. > > Hi, Rich. > > You didn't mention your operating system, so I will reply for Windows, > which is what I have. The way you do this is by installing a program > that acts like a printer as far as the OS is concerned, but prints to a > PDF file instead of paper. In other words, this is an add-on to Windows, > not an add-on to a particular application like GnuCash. > > I have used CutePDF Writer(1) for longer than I can remember. Just > download it and install it like any other program. Then when you go to > print your checks, the printer selection dialog will contain a new entry > for CutePDF. Select that as the printer but don't make it the default. > CutePDF will generate the PDF and _then_ ask you to specify file name > and location, so don't worry that those choices don't appear in the > initial dialog. > > (1) http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp > > -- > Regards, > Stan Brown _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
