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Originally Posted by necron_mason
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.
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It usually takes only a few minutes. The larger the book the longer it might take. Be patient. This prints the book to a PDF file not to your printer.
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Originally Posted by necron_mason
but would it really give me a different result than converting seperately?
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Possibly, often folks report this output being what they were looking for when working through the conversion wasn't giving them the results expected.
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Originally Posted by dwig
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.
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When you print via calibre's viewer, by default it prints to a PDF file using a print driver built into calibre.