Lurch wrote:

Why not just print to PDF rather than going through all the rigmarol
of adding dummy printers, converting files etc..?

perhaps because not all installations have PDF writer installed?

another reason is that PDF exporting tools differ. if all you do is
print, it doesn't matter much (although size can differ). but if you
want to _search_ for text, some PDF export tools will create such PDFs
that you won't be able to search in them. the method above doesn't
mangle text, convert it to raster image or split it into separate
characters as some of the tools do.

/max