When I try to print, "Save XPS document window" appears.
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the file in *xps, the document will not print. Using Office XP in Windows XP.
Started when I uninstalled all of Office and reinstalled just WORD.
Scott M.
document, rather than your actual printer.
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Robert
ļæ½.xpsļæ½ files are like ļæ½.pdfļæ½ files. They are neither read nor printed from
Word. Word can only create (save) them through a very special ļæ½printer
driverļæ½.
If you want to actually print your document from Word, save it as a ļæ½.docļæ½
or ļæ½.docxļæ½ file first.
If you save your document as an ļæ½.xpsļæ½ file, you have to open it in the
dedicated application first, i.e. Internet Explorer. And print it from
there, not from Word.
HTH.
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Gordon Bentley-Mix
I reckon Scott M. is on the right track. The way I read the it, the OP only
saved the file in .xps format _after_ trying to print it. The behaviour
described looks to me like Word is trying to print to the "Microsoft XPS
Document Writer" - possibly because there are no other printers installed
or because it has been set as the default.
I've run into similar situations when setting up a new computer. If I
install Word before I set up a printer, the "Microsoft Office Document Image
Writer" gets set as the default printer. Then if I install a printer and
forget to set it as the default, Word continues to use this "printer" until
someone complains and I go in and change it.
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?
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
document that results from the conversion to PDF or XPS format.
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Robert
> 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 doesnļæ½t actually
print anything is called a ļæ½print toļæ½ command. It would stand to reason to
name it as a ļæ½save toļæ½ or ļæ½convert toļæ½ command. Especially as a new file is
actually ļæ½createdļæ½ (or ļæ½savedļæ½) in the ļæ½.xpsļæ½ format.
When we are supposed to ļæ½print to .xpsļæ½, nothing gets printed at all. If a
ļæ½.xpsļæ½ document is to be ļæ½printedļæ½ at all, it has to be opened in the
dedicated application (viewer) and actually ļæ½printedļæ½ 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
ļæ½printingļæ½ commands, and commands that only ļæ½saveļæ½ named as ļæ½savingļæ½
commands.
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Graham Mayor
is 'printing'. The fact that the active driver outputs to a file and not to
paper is really immaterial as Word has no way of establishing the output
format of the active driver. It merely directs the document to it for
processing. Indeed any 'printer' driver can be directed to a file.
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Robert wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:29:33 +1200, Gordon Bentley-Mix wrote:
>
>> 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 doesn�t
> 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.
Jay Freedman
unaware of what is understood by the non-technologists among their audience.
Just because the software that does the job is technically a "printer
driver", that's no longer a reason for the UI to say that what it does is
"printing". If most people think of making a PDF file as "saving", then
that's how it should appear. Software in general, and Office in particular,
is already loaded with plenty of these "little white lies".
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Graham Mayor wrote:
> I can understand the confusion, but as far as Word is concerned the
> process is 'printing'. The fact that the active driver outputs to a
> file and not to paper is really immaterial as Word has no way of
> establishing the output format of the active driver. It merely
> directs the document to it for processing. Indeed any 'printer'
> driver can be directed to a file.
>
Robert
> The fact that the active driver outputs to a file and not to
> paper is really immaterial as Word has no way of establishing the output
> format of the active driver.
Hi Graham,
I am sure that the MS Word developers know perfectly well what is going to
happen to the file that is ļæ½printed to the .xps driverļæ½. As a matter of
fact, for the corresponding ļæ½printerļæ½ name, they did not use something like
ļæ½Canon MP140 Series Printerļæ½, but actually ļæ½Microsoft XPS Document Writerļæ½.
This is clear recognition that no actual printing is involved. A ļæ½Document
Writerļæ½ cannot ļæ½printļæ½ to a file, it merely ļæ½writesļæ½ (or createsļæ½) a text
to a file.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
its own PDF creator, but if you choose Adobe PDF as the printer, then you're
"printing."
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>>> What I personally find confusing is that a command that doesn�t
>>> 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.
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