pavane -

You should be able to "print to file" from any program. You can create/install a "printer" that's a print to file, and if you set that as your default printer, anything you print will go to a file. The program ain't got nothin' to say about it.

Many printers allow you to "turn on" a print to file option in the printer options at the time of printing, and most people will want to do it that way. If you go into properties/settings for a printer and convert the printer installation to a "file print" setup, you can't usually reverse the change.

You can "install" a printer that doesn't exist physically on your setup, and print to file to get an input appropriate to that printer. This is useful, as mentioned in a previous post, if you want something like "clean PostScript" and don't have a !PS printer.

I currently have 3 physical printers in the office, one of which can print PostScript or PCL, so I have 4 installed printers (drovers) that produce "paper" output. I have a total of 14 "installed" printers on my computer, with the others just for print to file uses.

John