Ultimately, it works as a virtual printer. It's not the only feature that
works that way. Faxing, Microsoft Office Document Image Writer, Microsoft
XPS Document Writer, and Send To OneNote 2007 all work through printing
mechanisms, as do a number of 3rd party add-ins.
Note that none of those are printers, but they all using the printing API. I
assume from what you're saying that there are no installed printer objects
whatsoever in Control Panel - Printers control... and/or that that control
is missing entirely. If the latter, this sounds awfully limiting on the part
of your technical folks.
--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com
"Saqib Ali" <docbook.xml[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1181716828.564740.129110[ at ]i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
[Quoted Text] >I just installed the Save as PDF plugin for Office 2007 Suite. But > whenever I try to save a file it errors out by saying "No printers are > installed". > > We are not allowed to install printers on our research campus > computers. My question is why does the Save as PDF plugin requires the > printers to be installed in the first place? > > Is there any work around it? > > Thanks > saqib > http://www.linkedin.com/in/encryption>
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