Print to a Printer File

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Before considering this, consider exactly what printing to a file is all about. Printing to a file, except for the Generic/Text Only printer, does NOT result in a readable file. At least not readable by you or I. The file produced when printing to file is simply a capture of the data stream which would have originally gone to the printer. The data in this file is printer specific which means it can only be used again, in most cases, on a printer using the same exact printer driver. You will probably see that this is extremely limiting in its use. But even so, RPM provides you the option to create these printer files if you need them. The end user can select this option from the standard printer dialog or the RPM final destination dialog. Or you can do so programmatically using the rpm_ToFile template.