This doesn't seem possible as the printer output is either a bitmap of
dots that happen to fill out letter shapes or there is some intermediary
vector language like postscript which the printer then processes into
its bitmap. Either way, there isn't just plain text to capture going to
the printer. You can print to a PDF since that just takes the postscript
and massages it a bit for rendering through a PDF viewer like TextEdit.
So, to your second point, you could print to PDF and then use pdftohtml.
I've never used that tool but it's available via macports in the
terminal. I did a quick test making a document in pages, printing it to
PDF and then converting that to HTML and was able to read the output in
Safari just fine. Of course a more complex source document might not be
so easy.
CB
On 2/9/13 4:55 AM, William Windels wrote:
Hello,
I was thinking of the pdf problem:
Is there no possibility to install a virtual printer driver on the mac so that
you can print to a (txt)-file from any application like preview?
Other solutions:
I was looking for the program for mac called pdftohtml: it is a program I have
used in the past from the terminal but it seems I can't find the mac version
anymore.
Any hints:
about a printer drive that can print any file to a txt/rtf file or a valid
copy/version of pdftohtml for the mac should be very welcome.
Kind regards,
William Windels
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