Microsoft KB Archive/148855

Mac Works: No “Print to File” Option

PSS ID Number: Q148855 Article last modified on 10-22-1998

2.0 3.0 4.0 4.0a 4.0b

MACINTOSH

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= SYMPTOMS =

When you try to use the Print To File option in Works, you may experience either of the following symptoms:


 * No Print To File option is available.
 * You save a file using the PostScript File option, and the file that is created contains several pages of unreadable code.

= CAUSE =

Works does not have a Print To File option to save a file to disk. If a PostScript printer is selected in the Chooser, there is an option to save the file as a PostScript file. However, this option creates a file of PostScript page description code for a printer; it does not create a text file of the document that can be edited.

= STATUS =

This behavior is by design.

= MORE INFORMATION =

Steps to Reproduce Behavior
Non-PostScript Printer:


 * 1) Open a word processing document.
 * 2) On the File menu, click Print. Note that there is no Print To File option to save the file to a disk.

PostScript Printer:

  Open a word processing document.   On the File menu, click Print.   Click PostScript File, click Save, and then type a name for the file. Note that on some printer drivers you may not have the option “Postscript File”, but rather it may simply say “File”.   Go to the File menu and select Open.   Select All Available from the File Format drop down menu.   Click the file that you created earlier, and then click Open.   Click OK when you receive the following message: There is no translator available to import the file &quot; &quot;. Would you like to open it as a text file?

where is the name of the file that you created NOTE: If you have Macintosh Easy Open installed on your computer, and it is turned On, you can simply double-click the file you created in step 3 from the Finder. Choose Works as the program to open the file. 

The file opens in the word processor as several pages of PostScript code.

KBCategory: kbprint KBSubcategory: kb3rdparty macworkskb Additional reference words: 2.00 3.00 4.00 4.00a 4.00b mac m_works Post Script mwkswp ====================================================================== Keywords : kb3rdparty kbprint Version : 2.0 3.0 4.0 4.0a 4.0b Platform : MACINTOSH ============================================================================= Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1998.