Show HN: Poor man's Google Docs

Re:Show HN: Poor man's Google Docs by creshal on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @03:46PM (#12393262)

Every browser in Linux and OSX does it, and doesn't Windows 10 ship with a built-in PDF printer too?

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Re:Show HN: Poor man's Google Docs by justinlardinois on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @04:43PM (#12393725)

Those are built into the operating system, not the browser.

My point is that not everyone has those features out of the box. Sure, you can install more software, but it's not a reason to not have a feature like that in this word processor.

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Re:Show HN: Poor man's Google Docs by stephenr on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @04:55AM (#12396926)

Well by that logic, I sure hope my word processor has a calculator and an mp3 player and shit it better have an app store too.

Printing is the responsibility of the platform, not the application.

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Re:Show HN: Poor man's Google Docs by creshal on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @06:52AM (#12397337)

> Well by that logic, I sure hope my word processor has a calculator and an mp3 player and shit it better have an app store too.

Something something Zawinski's Law.

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Re:Show HN: Poor man's Google Docs by marco1 on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @04:21PM (#12393529)

Yes, Windows 10 has this now, just as Ubuntu with its "Print to File". But Windows 7 and 8 don't have this feature.

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Re:Show HN: Poor man's Google Docs by creshal on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @04:31PM (#12393613)

You can either install third party PDF printers for them (there's literally dozens), or use the builtin XPS printer and a converter.

Now matter how you look at it, it's not a feature that applications have to bother with reinventing.

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