Gidday Am
We have virtual PDF printers installed on all our computers. That doesn't actually help when the web pages involved produce hieroglyphics when the file is printed on that virtual PDF printer ...
Flaming useless.
One of the great strengths of MS has always been that it has preserved some kind of compatibility of files and file structures over more than three decades. It is not sensible to ditch a commitment to that. EVEN MS Publisher, one of the worst offenders in the MS/Windows world, has the ability to write files in the Publisher98 format, which is readable, editable and writable in all versions of MS Publisher.
WinXP and Win7 do not have a MS virtual PDF printer. However, Adobe Acrobat is designed for EXACTLY this purpose, and now no longer works on some web sites ...
I suspect that it has to do with file headers and font substitution, possibly along with the use of prohibited control characters in same ... .
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Yeah, Kev.
I started with MS before MSDOS v.2.01. Used Word and Multiplan (nearly a decade before it was renamed to Excel ... ).
A friend has Vista Enterprise installed on his PC since before I knew him. It's ugly, plain f'ugly ... XP Pro is almost infinitely better. I support that to this day.
I am in the process of upgrading both our h/w and OS from XP Pro to Win7 Pro (32 bit). I inherited a bunch of Win7 Pro PCs from a client. They are good gear (I originally provisioned them some years ago). Just need an update to SSD and 4GB RAM each. Then install CS5/6 Office and the myriad other programs on each of them. I have one operational - it flies .