While it's true that you can't print (as in hardcopy print) .xps or .pdf
documents directly from Word, you can certainly "print" _to_ .xps or .pdf
from within Word - and the dialog that's presented when you do this is a
"Save" dialog. It's bloody confusing because it's not consistent; you don't
'save' in some sort of '.paper' format when you print them on a printer, so
why should you 'save' when you "print" them to .xps or .pdf?
Hi Gordon,
What I personally find confusing is that a command that doesnÿt actually
print anything is called a ´print to¡ command. It would stand to reason to
name it as a ´save to¡ or ´convert to¡ command. Especially as a new file is
actually ´created¡ (or ´saved¡) in the ´.xps¡ format.
When we are supposed to ´print to .xps¡, nothing gets printed at all. If a
´.xps¡ document is to be ´printed¡ at all, it has to be opened in the
dedicated application (viewer) and actually ´printed¡ from there. This
cannot be done from MS Word. Word only saves the document under the chosen
name and format.
I personally would much prefer having commands that print named as
´printing¡ commands, and commands that only ´save¡ named as ´saving¡
commands.