Setting up a printer to my mac?

How can I improve the print-to-pdf interface on MAC?

• To level set, my platform is Mac OSX Snow Leopard. I sometimes create banners and such that are designed to be plotted/printed on large format printers. For example, a banner might print to a page that is 12" x 72". Now, I don't actually own such a printer, the FedEx Kinko's down the street does, hence I don't have a driver installed for it. I really don't know the "best" tool for creating these drawings. I have used NeoOffice Draw and it seems to work ok until it comes to printing time. When I try to print to PDF, which is what the folks at Kinko's want, the print pop-up always asks if I want to rescale the print to fit my 8-1/2 X 11 home printer(s). No, just print it "as-is" is NOT a choice. I end up having to crawl through setting up odd sized paper under "Any Printer" and somehow, I still don't really understand how, the print to PDF now saves the file sized to print as drawn. So, I can see a couple of possible approaches to making this easier. Install the print driver for the printer at Kinko's. Only, I don't think the installation process will allow that unless the printer is connected. Develop a dongle that fools the Mac into thinking the printer is attached. Cute idea that could make money if I sold them, but hardly reasonable. Develop a dummy (virtual?) print driver that can be added without a physical printer having to be present and which opens a window when you "print" to it that allows you to specify the page size and other information with which it will "lie" to the OS and say, "Yes, I am a printer capable of doing this....". (FYI, I am a programmer going on 30 years now.) So, before I teach myself Objective-C and how to use Xcode, is there a better or known solution? Is there an existing product I can use? Is there a driver development kit for virtual printers? Any chance I could get a C++ kit and not have to learn Objective-C? Thanks!

• Answer:

  You can convert PDF files into the other format that you can print , and you can try this tool . it's a powerful function tool to transfor PDF . http://www.pdfconvertermac.org If it does't work , you can download a Acrobat Reader into your Mac . PDF is compatible in Acrobat Reade .but I am not sure it can be printed .