Print testing

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I'm currently writing software which outputs information to a printer. I'd like to be able to 'capture' and view the output without actually printing it, so I don't have to chop down quite so many trees. I can output the print data to a file (the usual 'print to file' option), but I can't do much with it from there. Anyone know of any utilities that allow print files to be viewed?
 
That's what I'm after (print to TIFF, PDF, or some other document format), but I don't have that option. Any ideas gratefully received. :)

PS can be handled with ghostscript on Linux (up to a point). Don't know if there's a Windows version, but then my printer is PCL anyway so that's not going to help much.
 
That's an Office 2003 feature...

Which I just conveniently happen to have. \o/

It's not perfect but it's more than good enough. Thankyou.

PS - I also asked the same at work. One of our testing guys just sent me this - http://www.primopdf.com. Handy. :)
 
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