Printing PDFs

Creating Portable Document Format (PDF) files from applications that do not natively create the format is helpful when trying to maintain formating of a document, making it easy to share with others, or printing at a later date. For example, when purchasing an item online, the final order step will often suggest you print the page for your records or you discover an article online which may only be published for a short time that you want to save for your personal reference which. What if you do not want to waste psychical paper and ink or toner, or you are working on a system that does not have connectivity to a printer?

Consider printing to a PDF file. Some applications such as OpenOffice provide the ability to export to a directly to a PDF file (see the File menu). However, by default, applications such as Mozilla Firefox or Microsoft Internet Explorer do not provide this functionally.

Discover CutePDF Writer <http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp>.
Installing this free software package along with the free (and required and recommended) Ghostscript writer will create a new printer on your system called "CutePDF". Whenever the need arises to create a PDF file for the current document you are viewing, simply print it and select "CutePDF" as your printer. You will be prompted for a filename and location. Once the "printing" process is completed, a PDF file

CutePDF Writer supports Microsoft Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista (x32/x64).

(Apple OS X natively supports printing to PDFs - so I am told.)