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You can view this document in free Acrobat Reader, navigate through the page or the whole document which is one or more pages usually. PDF format is used to save predesigned magazines, brochures and flyers.
- I used Windows XP and Microsoft Word 2003 and would create a PRN file by PRINT TO FILE/GENERIC-TEXT ONLY Printer. Then I would open the document in Word 2003 and could see how the document converted. I bought a new computer with Windows 7x64 bit and Microsoft Office 2010 and now when I follow the same steps to create a PRN file I cannot open the document in Word 2010 to see the converted document.
- Oct 01, 2011 Prn files date back to the days of MS-DOS 1.0, and they might have had some use then. It's the byte stream sent to a printer, but then redirected a diskfile. So the exact contents is totally dependent of make, model and 'language' of the printer.
Prn files date back to the days of MS-DOS 1.0, and they might have had some use then. It's the byte stream sent to a printer, but then redirected a diskfile. So the exact contents is totally dependent of make, model and 'language' of the printer. I know no printer that comes with software that emulates the firmware in the printer (that makes nice printed pages of that byte stream) to make equally nice screens on a PC.
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I think that 99% of the current computer users don't know what to do with such a file (you're certainly not the only one). It's quite simple: you type the ms-dos command copy xxx.prn lpt1: and the file is sent to the printer and printer prints the contents. I don't know if this works in the command processor of Windows 7 to copy that same file to a USB-printer, a networked printer or a wireless printer, but I'm afraid that won't work. But the printer is connected to a parallel port this should be the way to get the contents on paper. The two main uses of such a file used to be: 1.
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You could easily print multiple copies of a file by repeatedly issuing the copy command. Big brands big trouble pdf. You only needed the right printer driver on a PC to print to a file, then copied the file to diskette and could print it on another PC that had that printer, but not the software you used to print the original file. Nowadays things are totally different. We print to a pdf-printer, which makes a pdf-file which we can view and print in any pdf-reader.
All we need to be able to do that is to install such a pdf-printer. A common and good and free one is cutepdf from If you install it it will make a new (virtual) printer on your PC and if you choose that printer (in stead of your standard printer) it will ask for a filename for the pdf it makes. That's very easy to use. Carefully read the instructions about installing both cutepdf itself and the (open source) ghostscript.