When you save the web page, select Save as and Web archive. Doing it
that way, there is just one file. A directory is usually created holding
all the files separately that the web page uses when you save as a web
page.
To use print to file you need to have a target printer installed to
process the data stream into a file formatted for a particular printer.
The printer file will look mighty strange if opened in a word processor.
To use it, the file is "copied", not "printed" to a printer port. The
printer then processes it exactly as if it were being sent from the
application, through the printer driver, through the port device driver,
to the printer. The printer used has to be, or be compatible with, the
one whose printer driver is used to create the file.
It would be logical to have the print to file option 'greyed out' in
menus unless a printer driver were installed but MS does not always do
what I think is logical either. ;-) Davide's suggestion is worth
consideration if you always want to use that printer driver to print to
a file. That way you simply specify the printer and all output always
goes to a file.
Tom
MSMVP
Windows Shell/User
:
: > If you want to just have a local copy of a web page you couls use
"Save as"
: > instead of printing it.
:
: I think I did that and got a directory with a bunch of files in it.
: Each file was one of the graphics on the web page.
:
: > If you really want to print to a file, then you have to install a
printer
: > driver and connect it to the "FILE:" port. The file you'll obtain
will be
: > formatted with all the control codes needed for the printer you
chose (i.e.
: > you cannot print it to any printer at a later time)
:
: Then why does the "print" window have a check-box entitled "Print to
: File"?
:
: Matt
