How To Save File In Pdf Format While Printing

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Print File Formats

These brief definitions will help you better understand how each file format is best used.

You'll need a free PDF printer. What you would do is open up the page you want and proceed as if you're going to print the pages you'd like to split to your printer. Instead of selecting your physical printer, select your PDF printer. The PDF printer will take those pages and create a new PDF with a new file name. Once you've located the toolbar, click the icon that looks like a computer diskette or an arrow pointing down to save the PDF file. If the toolbar is not visible, look in your browser's file menu for the Save as or Save page as option. (Press the Alt key to make the menu bar visible if it's hidden.). In Windows 10: Open a document. Open the document, file, or web page that you'd like to save in. The file you have just saved will be the same as the file that appears in the 'Print Preview' window, except it will now be in PDF format. References & resources Mac OS X 10.4 Help: Saving a document as a PDF file.

PDF (short for Portable Document Format) is a file format developed by Adobe as a means of distributing compact, platform-independent documents. PDF captures formatting information from a variety of desktop publishing applications, making it possible to send formatted documents and have them appear on the recipient's monitor or printer as they were intended.
You can use Adobe Acrobat to create PDF files, and you can view PDF files either with Adobe Reader or via a web browser with the PDF Viewer plug-in. For more information, visit the Adobe Acrobat website.

EPS (short for Encapsulated PostScript) is a vector format designed for printing to PostScript printers and imagesetters. It is considered the best choice of graphics format for high resolution printing of illustrations. EPS files are created and edited in illustration programs such as Adobe Illustrator or CorelDRAW.
Vector graphics are a scalable, resolution-independent format composed of individual objects or shapes. Vector images can be resized easily without loss of quality making them an ideal format for initial logo designs and illustrations to be used in multiple sizes.

JPG (short for Joint Photographic Experts Group, and pronounced jay-peg) is a file format best used for photo images which must be very small files, for example, for web sites or for email. JPG uses lossy compression (lossy meaning 'with losses to quality'). Lossy means that some image quality is lost when the JPG data is compressed and saved, and this quality can never be recovered.
File compression methods for most other file formats are lossless, meaning 'fully recoverable'. However, this integrity requirement does limit efficiency, limiting compression of photo image data to only 10% to 40% reduction in practice (graphics can be smaller).

TIFF (short for Tagged Image File Format) is an industry standard designed for handling raster or bitmapped images. TIFF files can be saved in a variety of color formats and in various forms of compression. TIFFs use lossless compression to maintain image integrity and clarity and are often used for professional photography.

GIF (short for Graphics Interchange Format) is a file format for storing graphical images up to 256 colors. It uses a lossless compression method which makes for higher quality output. PNG (short for Portable Network Graphics) was created as a more powerful alternative to the GIF file format. PNGs are not restricted to the 256 color limitation of GIF files and have better compression. A PNG file can be saved with a transparent background which allows you to place your image on top of another image without an outlining white box.
GIF files are probably the most popular on the web being used in logos and color images. Even though PNG files are widely supported, GIF is still the most popular.

How to cut scenes from movies. ZIP is a file format used for data archiving and compression. A ZIP file contains one or more files that have been compressed and bundled to reduce file size and allow for easy file transfers. ZIP files can be created by right-clicking on a file or folder and selecting 'Compress' (Mac) or 'Send To > Compressed/Zipped Folder' (PC). Once a ZIP file is receive (ex. via email) it must be 'unzipped' or de-compressed before the files themselves can be accessed.

While we prefer one of the above formats when submitting files, we do accept native files for the following software programs:
Microsoft Word 2013 or earlier
Microsoft Publisher 2013 or earlier
Microsoft Excel 2013 or earlier
Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 or earlier
Adobe InDesign CC 2015 or earlier
Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 or earlier
Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 or earlier
Adobe Acrobat 11
Quark Xpress 9 or earlier
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I was asked how to print PDF files and automatically include a filename on the print out. This was for a team of users whose technical diagrams were meant to include the filename of the file but, inevitably, this was missed out. In many applications you can automate this process, include variables in the footer or header, but in this case the users used a variety of tools and really the only common factor was that they delivered the final versions in PDF format.

The solution had to be pretty straightforward, ideally with someone being able to right click the file and print it with a filename stamped on the print out.

The solution is a bit long-winded but it works well and, once done, should just keep on ticking. I'm assuming that all the machines are Windows 10 64bit.

1. Install Irfanview 64-bit from here and install it. Irfanview is a superb opensource image viewer with great batch file and command line features.
2. Install the Irfanview 64-bit plugin pack from here. This will add support for viewing PDFs (as well as loads of other file types).
3. Open Irfanview 64-bit and from there open a PDF file. You may have to change the filename to *.PDF in order to show PDF files.
4. Now print the file by clicking File > Print from the menu bar. We'll be setting the Footer information to include the filename variable ($F). Be sure to click the SAVE button (highlighted).
   
5. Cancel that box and close Irfanview.
6. Now that the printing aspect is configured we need to add a right click menu. I created a custom context menu entry to send the file to Irfanview and order it to print using the default printer. Download the REG file here. Expand the zip file and double click the reg file you find there. This will add it to your registry. You may need to reboot afterwards but it should just work.
7. You should now see a new right click menu when right clicking PDF files.
   

How To Save File In Pdf Format While Printing Software

How does it work?

Irfanview view takes care of adding the filename as a footer to the print out. We're focusing on a PDF here but it could be any file type that Irfanview supports. As long as you save the printer settings in the printer dialogue then that footer will be included in anything that's printed out.

The context menu is handled by a registry entry that's kept in the .reg file. Double-clicking the .reg file imports it. The .reg file itself looks like this;

How To Save File In Pdf Format While Printing Word

You can see that it assumes the location of Irfanview is 'C:Program FilesIrfanViewi_view64.exe' which is fine for any x64 version of Windows. If you wanted to change this to work with JPG files then you could just edit the .reg file in Notepad and replace .PDF with .JPG, save, and re-import the file.