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[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Beyond that, also, what's so hard about clicking on "File > Export As... > PDF" which is literally in the file menu on LibreOffice at the very least. I don't know about MS Office, but I would assume it's the same.

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

It can produce different results than print to pdf unfortunately

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Could you expand on that, I'm curious because export to PDF has always worked flawlessly for me.

[-] Triumph@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago

Depends on the application. Print to PDF always produces the output as seen on screen, though without things like fillable fields.

[-] autriyo@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

Unless you change print options of course, depending on what you're trying to accomplish it can get really weird.

[-] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I'm going to assume you're on the younger side. That's a relatively recent thing. For many many years we had to install PDF printers.

Also the PDF printer is generic, but the export has to implemented for each application individually.

[-] The_v@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

CutePDF was the best.

https://cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf/writer.asp

Started out with it in XP.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm in my forties. The post we are talking about was made in February 2026. Priyanka Lakhara definitely looks younger than me, didn't even make her Twitter account until January 2024.

What does age or how it worked in the past have to do with a post made... four days ago by someone who is either late twenties to mid-thirties at most?

Also, in those old timey wimey years I was just pirating Adobe Acrobat.

[-] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

The age comment is not about the age of the posts, but about how you seem so surprised about printing as PDF rather than export as PDF.

Using a virtual printer was the norm until relatively recently, and even then it's still the most effective because anything than can print can use that to generate a PDF.

That's how I still create PDFs honestly.

Didn't want you offend, sorry if came out wrong

[-] Korne127@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Well, but we're not just talking about Office. What about browsers, document viewers, etc.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 month ago
[-] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

How about notepad. Or paint.

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