I don't own a printer. I want to print on-line documents such as coupons and airline tickets to a USB drive which I will then take to the Staples store for printing. I want to keep the bar codes intact.
How can I print to the pen drive?
I don't own a printer. I want to print on-line documents such as coupons and airline tickets to a USB drive which I will then take to the Staples store for printing. I want to keep the bar codes intact.
How can I print to the pen drive?
If you're using Windows, you could install CutePDF (free), which allows you to save any printable document to a PDF. You could save the PDF files to your thumbdrive, then transport them to Staples.
If you're using a Mac, in the standard print dialog you can select PDF -> Save to PDF...
You don't even need to install CutePDF - select a Postscript printer and Print to File. (this will give you a postscript file).
To create a "print to Postscript" virtual printer in Windows XP, follow these steps:
When complete, you'll have a new "printer" available to your applications. When printing to this virtual printer, a popup dialog will ask where to save the output file. It will be a Postscript file, but you may need to add the .ps
file extension by hand. There are free tools that will convert Postscript to PDF if you prefer (such as ps2pdf from the GNU Ghostview utility).
On a Mac, just hit Command+P
(or File
-> Print
), click the PDF
button at the bottom-left of the dialogue and choose Save as PDF...