No that doesn't mean you need a new printer or pack of special PDF paper -- it's just your computer's way of making the conversion. To print to PDF in Windows, follow these steps and you'll be.

Technical Level: Basic Summary PDF, which stands for Portable Document Format is an electronic document, which maintains its original formatting regardless of the device it is viewed on. Windows 10 includes native support for creating PDF files using a virtual printer. If you happen to accidentally delete or need to create another one, this article will show you how. Details Click Start then type: devices and printers Hit Enter Click Add Printer on the command bar Click The printer that I want isn't listed Click Add a local printer or network printer with manual settings then click Next Select Use an existing port then click in the list box then select PDF (Local Port) Scroll down and select Microsoft under Manufacturer then scroll down and select Microsoft Print to PDF under Printers then click Next Give the printer a name or leave the default, click Next Click Finish Resources.

I've been working on this for many hours. There is NO 'The printer I want is not listed' only Not finding what looking for which takes me to a windows page about bluetooth! I deleted old Windows print to pdf after: Print to pdf appears to work it says its doing it but never puts anything in the file folder I save it to.

I found some solved this with resetting permissions on the Temp files especially if moved. I went through all the command prompts and got the end result as specified. In sharing you have to include Current Creator or something like that not just 'Everyone'. The try to find a problem options doesn't find a problem.. Except won't print to pdf I believe in a prior version of Windows 10 there was a Printer is not listed option as this post describes. But in my latest update it disappeared.

NEW I found the printer is not listed option. If you right click in the printer area the option does not show. However, if you use the upper tab 'Add a printer' does show and I followed every step in this article. It put the Print to PDF printer back in. No joy if print to it now doesn't even give me the save as file explorer which it did before.

I changed all the security settings to allow all the options. Canon Multifunction Printer K10339 Manual. I then set up the printer to 'save to file' But doing that only has a Postscript? Output option.

It opened explorer direction, let it save.showed it was saving. But just as before, no file is actually saved.

So have basically run out of options nothing seems to work I am going to just print on a regular printer that works fine and then scan it and convert to pdf. Software Printer Epson L110 there. Would be easier if Print to PDF worked. There is a Error in the instructions when told to choose an existing port.