Office Document Image Writer

[Sinclair]

I have OneNote SP1 installed on my PC but there's no sight of Image Writer
Printer as stated on the OneNoteGuide Word file (see excerpt below) I
downloaded some time ago. Is there anybody willing to explain it to me ?

""Adding Other Documents to Your Notebook
OneNote also makes it easy to incorporate documents from Word, presentations
from PowerPoint and worksheets from Excel into your notes. You can also
import text files, as well as TIFF and other generic image file types.To
incorporate a docu­ment into a OneNote page, use the Document as Pictures
option on the Insert menu. This effectively “prints†the document into your
OneNote notebook. You can then refer to the pages that result and take notes
on or beside them. This is an ideal way to annotate PowerPoint handouts or
Word or Excel documents. For other docu­ment types, you can print the files
to the Microsoft Office Document Image Writer — which OneNote installs as a
printer option — and generate a single-page .mdi format document or a
multipage .tiff format document that you can then insert in OneNote.""

 

[Andrew Watt [MVP - InfoPath]]

I have OneNote SP1 installed on my PC but there's no sight of Image Writer
Printer as stated on the OneNoteGuide Word file (see excerpt below) I
downloaded some time ago. Is there anybody willing to explain it to me ?

""Adding Other Documents to Your Notebook
OneNote also makes it easy to incorporate documents from Word, presentations
from PowerPoint and worksheets from Excel into your notes. You can also
import text files, as well as TIFF and other generic image file types.To
incorporate a docu­ment into a OneNote page, use the Document as Pictures
option on the Insert menu. This effectively “prints” the document into your
OneNote notebook. You can then refer to the pages that result and take notes
on or beside them. This is an ideal way to annotate PowerPoint handouts or
Word or Excel documents. For other docu­ment types, you can print the files
to the Microsoft Office Document Image Writer — which OneNote installs as a
printer option — and generate a single-page .mdi format document or a
multipage .tiff format document that you can then insert in OneNote.""

Sinclair,

If you select Print from the File menu is Document Image Writer listed
in the window that opens?

Andrew Watt
MVP - InfoPath

 

[Sinclair]

Hi Andrew,

No. Unfortunately it is not listed.

Lino.

 

[Andrew Watt [MVP - InfoPath]]

Lino,

I *think* it should be on your OneNote CD or an Office 2003 CD. It's
not installed by default as far as I recall.

I don't have either CD immediately to hand so if you can't locate it
there feel free to ask again.

Andrew Watt
MVP - InfoPath

 

[Sinclair]

Thank you Andrew,

FYI this feature is included in SP1 which became available here in
Milan/Italy mid August roughly a couple of months after the release of
OneNote itself and as far as I know is a downloadable upgrade only. Thus
there's no CD.

Regards Lino.

 

[Andrew Watt [MVP - InfoPath]]

Lino,

I know that MDI was usable before SP1, since it is covered in Fred
Zimmerman's book which was about the original release of OneNote and I
used when I was tech editing his book.

Perhaps someone else can point you to a source from which you can
install.

Andrew Watt
MVP - InfoPath

 

[Sinclair]

Andrew,

Don't you anybody who can help me to find the source ? You might already
have wondered why this guy from accross the ocean doesn't ask for help in his
country.
Simple. There's no Discussion Group for OneNote 'cause is still little known
out here. Moreover there's a huge technical gap between you and us. And in
addition to that here they either don't reply or shoot canned responses that
most often don't answer your question.
By the way where are you located exactly ?

P.S. I also have InfoPath installed on my PC even if I don't need it. I like
it.

 

[Benoit Barabe \(MS\)]

The Insert Documents feature is only available if you have Office 2003
installed. The driver is actually installed by the Office 2003 setup. So if
you are attempting a detect and repair or looking into the setup options, it
should be done on the Office 2003 setup.

While the practical requirements of having Office 2003 are correct, it seems
that the information about who install the print driver is not. I'll see if
that can be corrected online.

As for the functionality, if you do not have Office 2003, you can achieve
similar results using free third party utilities that hook to the import
fonctionality of OneNote SP1. A few gets mentionned often in this newsgroup.

Hope this helps,
Benoit,
OneNote Development.

 

[Kevin M]

I am unable to import a word, or powerpoint file into OneNote. [sounds like
a broken record, but a solution is not clear for this thread]

I have Onenote SP1, Office 2003 and I have MS Office Document Imaging. I
use an Acer Tablet PC and have imported many word and PPT files in Windows
Journal, without an hitch. (Note, the same files I try to import to OneNOte
gave no trouble to Windows Journal) Heck, I'm even running Windows XP w/ SP2.

As it stands, I get an error message when I try to use 'Insert, Document as
a Picture".

I'm a grad student and the ability to annotate lecture materials is critical
to using any further software package. It would seem crazy that W-Journal is
capable of this but not OneNote, seeing that OneNote appears to be the
flagship product.

I appreciate anyone's effort in assisting to solve this.

thx