Thread: Converting Epub to PDF Issues
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Old 06-29-2017, 05:08 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by necron_mason View Post
How long does that usually take? I have tried it, but while it was running my printer didnt seem to respond to it at all. Makes sense that it would only respond once the file has finished converting, but would it really give me a different result than converting seperately?
A "Print to PDF" driver doesn't access your physical printer. It is its own printer as far as the OS is concerned. On Windows (the newest Win10 update) you select "Microsoft Print to PDF" as your printer. On macOS/OSX you access the "PDF" menu in the lower left of the initial print dialog. In both cases, the output is a PDF file.

With older releases of Windows you would need a 3rd party "PDF virtual printer". I've used both PrimoPDF and BulzipPDF over the years, with good success. Foxit Reader, a PDF reader, also installs its own "Foxit Reader PDF Printer" utility.
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