![]() ![]() If you’re curious about the document itself, it’s from a project my daughter’s work on in her English class about the Australian civil rights activist Dr. Without any add-ons, any new software, any drivers or any configuration. To demonstrate, I’m going to take a Word file that I’ve opened up in WordPad on a Win10 system and convert it into a PDF file. Again, even if you’ve never configured a printer or installed a single printer driver. Mostly this is invisible, but if you have a computer that can print documents, you have a computer system that knows PDF. ![]() The secret is that just about all m0dern printers speak PDF as their layout language, so when you send a file – or even a photograph or image – to a printer, the system creates a PDF document to tell the printer what to do with the data. Turns out that you don’t even need to have a single printer hooked up or configured to be able to access the Microsoft Print to PDF capability on your Windows PC! ![]() While Microsoft Windows doesn’t make Portable Document Format (PDF) quite as obvious as a document format as the Apple MacOS X system does (on a Mac it’s super easy to save anything in PDF format) it is nonetheless the case that Windows does have PDF support.
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