importing files into One Note

[JCL]

So far have been cutting, pasting and dragging items into
One Note.
Can one print from say a pdf or word document directly to
a One Note file?

 

[Erik Sojka]

Do you mean the same way that you can create a Microsoft
Journal file by printing a document using that print
driver? No.

If you're running the SP1 preview (and have the Office
2003 MODI Print Driver) , you can insert Office documents
as pictures into a new page in OneNote (Insert menu
| "Document As Picture").

For a PDF document, you would have to convert the
document to a format recognized by the MODI applications
(easily done by manually printing it to the MODI print
driver) then Insert | Document As Picture, or Insert |
Picture | From File

 

[JCL]

Thanks for the reply.

do you know of any plans to create a print driver as they
have done with Journal?

I like One Note but don't see myself moving beyond the
evaluation copy without such a print driver.

 

[Erik Sojka]

I don't speak for Microsoft and do not know of their
future product plans, but I'd imagine not.

Printing to a Journal file prints to a single file, while
printing into OneNote involves the issue of using the
print driver/dialog box to determine where in the OneNote
hierarchy you want the printed image to appear.

Microsoft already does give you a way to insert a printed
image of a document into OneNote (via Insert | Picture or
via the MODI import).

I will admit that it may not work in everyone's
workflow. If you're in another application and say "Hey!
I want this document to be in OneNote." then you have to
close the file, switch to ON and then insert it.

 

[Peter Engrav \(MS, OneNote Dev Manager\)]

We believe it would be possible to write such a print driver (and handle the
multiple-pages-issue) using the "Data Import API" new in OneNote SP1. I
haven't heard yet of anyone attempting such a project.

Peter Engrav (MS, OneNote Dev Manager)