Microsoft Office Document Imaging Printer Driver Install

[mattj63]

We have PCs in our offices that have Office installed. The PCS in the lab do not. I would like to use Microsoft Office Document Imaging Printer Driver to create images of reports from the laboratory PCs. However, the only way I can find to install the printer driver is to install the Microsoft Document Imaging software that is part of MS Office 2003.

Is there a way to install the printer driver ONLY on the non-MS Office PCs so we can create files and then manipulate them in our offices PCs? We don't need to view/process the files using Microsoft Office Document Imaging software in the lab.

 

[xlhelp]

I believe the Printer Driver comes to life only when Document Imaging is enabled. If there is a way I haven't heard of it.

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[mattj63]

I'm still working on this problem. It appears that I cannot install only the .mdi printer driver but must have Office ($$$) installed on each PC.

Question: MS has come out with OneNote. It has many of the features I need but likewise I don't want to buy a copy for every laboratory PC. I only need the Lab PCs to be able to generate files I can paste into OneNote. Is this possible?

I suppose since OneNote is only around $50 it is a much cheaper solution than MSOffice and is possible to buy a copy for each PC but I'd like minimize the software on the Lab PCs. Many of them are older (older OSs) and can't have lots of extra software running/installed.

 

[eyec]

are images required or can you use reports printed out in Note/Wordpad on either flash drives or printers in the lab?

 

[mattj63]

We need to save both graphics and text. Dumping the report as an ASCII file will no work. We've looked at .pdf printer drives but want the ability to combine documents printed at different times from different sources into a single final document. To do this with .pdf would require a copy of Acrobat. Also Acrobat does not allow markup as easily as MS Document Imaging or OneNote.

 

[mattj63]

I found another way to do this that better suited our needs than OneNote. The formatting than OneNote forced us into didn't fit our needs since that program is more of a NoteBook than a document compilation utility.

We are printing .pdf files and have a program that will allows to combine .pdf's and add comments, text notes to it. Don't know if I can publicize the name here but it is Cute.

Matt