"Microsoft print to PDF" feature in windows 10 not showing drivers when activated
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Hi everyone, I have already deactivated printer spooler, updated windows, fixed windows, reinstalled windows and reinstalled fetures using Scannow and DCIM, and still can't make it show the PDF's printer driver when installing Print to file or other print to file options. This is in a domain in which GP is not affecting changes in PCs for drivers. IF you could tell me a way to install "Microsoft Print to PDF" directly, I mean without DCIM or activating features. Thanks.
Osvaldo CCWtech
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Can you use a third party print to PDF?
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Do you have Feature update 20 04 install? If so - remove it and go back to 1909. You mentioned you reinstalled - if you did that from an ISO you got from MS, you'll need to locate a 1909 ISO instead.
There is a known problem with printers, including the Print To PDF printer in Feature Update 20 04
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@scottalanmiller the client wants Microsoft...
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I have seen this twice and I just had to use a third party PDF printer, couldn't get the Microsoft one to work again. Both machines where on the latest Windows 10 version when it happened, so maybe a version update could bring it back.
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@Dashrender good point, testing now, thanks
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@Osvaldo said in "Microsoft print to PDF" feature in windows 10 not showing drivers when activated:
@scottalanmiller the client wants Microsoft...
Interesting - I have honestly never seen/heard that before.
quite the opposite - for example, my EHR "requires" Adobe Reader - and as such when someone doesn't have it, certain other people freak the hell out because they have no idea that it doesn't matter. This of course is perpetuated by the EHR vendor themselves who claim they only support systems with Adobe Reader, not other PDF viewers -
@Dashrender said in "Microsoft print to PDF" feature in windows 10 not showing drivers when activated:
@Osvaldo said in "Microsoft print to PDF" feature in windows 10 not showing drivers when activated:
@scottalanmiller the client wants Microsoft...
Interesting - I have honestly never seen/heard that before.
quite the opposite - for example, my EHR "requires" Adobe Reader - and as such when someone doesn't have it, certain other people freak the hell out because they have no idea that it doesn't matter. This of course is perpetuated by the EHR vendor themselves who claim they only support systems with Adobe Reader, not other PDF viewersSame here. It's always "the built in PDF stuff isn't good enough", sans explanation.
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@scottalanmiller said in "Microsoft print to PDF" feature in windows 10 not showing drivers when activated:
@Dashrender said in "Microsoft print to PDF" feature in windows 10 not showing drivers when activated:
@Osvaldo said in "Microsoft print to PDF" feature in windows 10 not showing drivers when activated:
@scottalanmiller the client wants Microsoft...
Interesting - I have honestly never seen/heard that before.
quite the opposite - for example, my EHR "requires" Adobe Reader - and as such when someone doesn't have it, certain other people freak the hell out because they have no idea that it doesn't matter. This of course is perpetuated by the EHR vendor themselves who claim they only support systems with Adobe Reader, not other PDF viewersSame here. It's always "the built in PDF stuff isn't good enough", sans explanation.
Well, in their defense, Windows 7 didn't have a built in PDF viewer when we went live with this EHR - so there was no built in. Also, back then IE was the preferred browser.
But that said - they still haven't updated their requirements. I'm sure they do that so they only have to deal with one PDF viewer for support purposes, but still - definitely sucks.!
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@Dashrender said in "Microsoft print to PDF" feature in windows 10 not showing drivers when activated:
Well, in their defense, Windows 7 didn't have a built in PDF viewer when we went live with this EHR - so there was no built in. Also, back then IE was the preferred browser.
How is that in their defense? That makes them even crazier if they are applying something unrelated - not trusting something that they haven't tried or even know exists. That means that there is NO reason for it, let alone a good one.
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@Osvaldo said in "Microsoft print to PDF" feature in windows 10 not showing drivers when activated:
@scottalanmiller the client wants Microsoft...
As if a pdf created by Microsoft is better than one created by another PDF creator. I'd show them 2 PDF's and see if they can tell which one was made by Microsoft.
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@Romo Did try the version update and still not working, Thank you for the response
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@CCWTech said in "Microsoft print to PDF" feature in windows 10 not showing drivers when activated:
@Osvaldo said in "Microsoft print to PDF" feature in windows 10 not showing drivers when activated:
@scottalanmiller the client wants Microsoft...
As if a pdf created by Microsoft is better than one created by another PDF creator. I'd show them 2 PDF's and see if they can tell which one was made by Microsoft.
hashtag blaine
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@scottalanmiller said in "Microsoft print to PDF" feature in windows 10 not showing drivers when activated:
@CCWTech said in "Microsoft print to PDF" feature in windows 10 not showing drivers when activated:
@Osvaldo said in "Microsoft print to PDF" feature in windows 10 not showing drivers when activated:
@scottalanmiller the client wants Microsoft...
As if a pdf created by Microsoft is better than one created by another PDF creator. I'd show them 2 PDF's and see if they can tell which one was made by Microsoft.
hashtag blaine
LOL.
#notshocked
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@scottalanmiller lol. good point! I am preparing the presentation
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Foxit has always been a good one for the print to pdf, at least back when Win7 was standard. But Foxit was the goto pdf viewer for basic features, or pro when they needed more.
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Sadly latest version of Foxit free (10) got rid of their PDF printer, so Its win10 or Adobe now (haven't checked other PDF utilities)
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@jt1001001 said in "Microsoft print to PDF" feature in windows 10 not showing drivers when activated:
Sadly latest version of Foxit free (10) got rid of their PDF printer, so Its win10 or Adobe now (haven't checked other PDF utilities)
Boo
