In one of the applications I'm working on, I need to test printing from my application. Since I expect to be printing a lot while testing, I downloaded PDF reDirect v2 from EXP Systems. There's a free version and pro version available; I'm using the free version. It's a virtual printer, meaning that you can create PDF output by just printing from any program. It's a painless install. And it works great for my purposes. When you print to the virtual printer, it pops up a preview window that shows a small version of the PDF and allows you to open up the PDF file by just clicking on the small version. So I can check out the printed output and just close the window when I'm done.
The user interface is somewhat quirky; I was trying to save printed output to disk today and it took a minute to figure out how to do that. But that is a minor complaint. If you're looking for a way to output to PDF, I definitely recommend that you take a look at PDF reDirect v2.
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