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Friday, July 1, 2016 11:02 AM
Hi,
I do not see print to pdf option. Cannot add printer also, because it is not listed as in this image. Print to PDF in Turn windows features on or off also is missing it.
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Monday, July 4, 2016 1:14 PM âś…Answered
PS>Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online | where FeatureName -match "PDF"Gives nothing, just next line.
Let's continue exploring the state of your Features regarding Printing. Change the -match pattern to "Print". On my VM where the PDF one is Disabled there are 5 other features which are all disabled including one called Printing-Foundation-Features. This reminds me that I have not re-enabled this since I disabled it a while ago in order to get a Windows cumulative update which would not install.
HTH
Robert Aldwinckle
Friday, July 1, 2016 12:53 PM
Your screenshot shows the Microsoft Print to PDF ? So not clear what your issue is? Does Settings > Devices show the Microsoft Print to PDF ?
If not click Add a printer or scanner, what for then select 'The printer that I want isn't listed' So Add a local printer or network printer with manual settings, use an existing port PORTPROMPT: (Local Port), then Microsoft and Microsoft Print to PDF and click next until finished.
Friday, July 1, 2016 2:48 PM
do not see print to pdf option.
Where? I have it in here in IE using Ctrl-p. Edge is strange. Maybe it is obscuring it?... Essentially the same procedure there--press Ctrl-p and then use the Drop-down because Microsoft XPS Document Writer is first in the list. NTF.
Robert Aldwinckle
Friday, July 1, 2016 2:58 PM
Print to PDF in Turn windows features on or off also is missing it.
That sounds like a GPO is in effect. Is there one for this? First see if the feature is just turned off by DISM
PS>Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online | where FeatureName -match "PDF"
Robert Aldwinckle
Saturday, July 2, 2016 7:48 PM
The picture is from other computer..
Saturday, July 2, 2016 8:18 PM
On the computer that does not have the Microsoft Print to PDF, what version of Windows is that? The Microsoft Print to PDF is not available in version previous to Windows 10. Is that computer managed as part of a domain? At what point did the Microsoft Print to PDF go missing what happened?
Anyhow on the 'Install the printer driver' screen, click Have Disk... click Browse, navigate to C:\Windows\System32\spool\tools\Microsoft Print To PDF\ and select the prnms009.inf file, click ok. That is the driver for the Microsoft Print to PDF and it can be added back in.
Saturday, July 2, 2016 8:29 PM
It is win 10, i think it never had that option. It is domain computer. Other computers have no problem. I will try your suggestion. Thanks.
Monday, July 4, 2016 6:53 AM
PS>Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online | where FeatureName -match "PDF"
Gives nothing, just next line.
If I try:
dism /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:"Printing-PrintToPDFServices-Features" /NoRestart
It gives me:
Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 6.3.9600.17031
Image Version: 6.3.9600.17031
Error: 0x800f080c
Feature name Printing-PrintToPDFServices-Features is unknown.
A Windows feature name was not recognized.
Use the /Get-Features option to find the name of the feature in the image and try the command again.
The DISM log file can be found at C:\Windows\Logs\DISM\dism.log
Any Ideas?
Monday, July 4, 2016 6:55 AM
In C:\Windows\System32\spool\tools there is no such folder Microsoft Print To PDF.
Any ideas?
Monday, July 4, 2016 12:56 PM
Feature name Printing-PrintToPDFServices-Features is unknown.
That's the FeatureName. How do we add a Feature to an Image?
Man *Feat* doesn't show a way. Maybe we need to find a way using *Packag*? How do we find out which "package" this feature comes in?
This doesn't help whether the feature is enabled or not:
Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online | where FeatureName -match "PDF" | fl *
Beats me.
Robert Aldwinckle
Thursday, July 21, 2016 9:23 AM
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