How to print documents to pictures (gif, bmp etc.) on windows

How to print documents to pictures (gif, bmp etc.) on windows What is the easiest way to capture the printout of a document in a picture (i.e. GIF, BMP etc.)? Making a screenshot does not help, since the printout is different and larger than the screen. Is there a special printer driver for windows that captures the printout into pictures?
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bert [Entry]

"You can use PDFCreator. It's free and open source. Here's a bit more info on it:

Create PDFs from any program that is
able to print Security: Encrypt PDFs
and protect them from being opened,
printed etc
New: Digitally sign your
PDFs to ensure that you are the author
and the file has not been modified
New: Create PDF/A files for long term
archives
Send generated files via
eMail
Create more than just PDFs: PNG,
JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS, EPS
AutoSave
files to folders and filenames based
on Tags like Username, Computername,
Date, Time etc.
Merge multiple files
into one PDF Easy Install: Just say
what you want and everything is
installed
Terminal Server: PDFCreator
also runs on Terminal Servers without
problems
And the best: PDFCreator is
free, even for commercial use! It is
Open Source and released under the
Terms of the GNU General Public
License."

bert [Entry]

"Would printing to .pdf help?

I use cute pdf, and I think Open Office does this."

bert [Entry]

"Not explicitly ""printing"", but this Chrome extension I found to be fantastic for the problem of ""rendered webpage -> png"". It's created by an independent developer, and in addition to being found on the Chrome Web Store, there's also a MIT-licensed version of it on GitHub, as well as a premium offering.

Full Page Screen Capture

Chrome Web Store page:
chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/full-page-screen-capture/fdpohaocaechififmbbbbbknoalclacl
MIT-licensed GitHub repo:
github.com/mrcoles/full-page-screen-capture-chrome-extension
Extension website: gofullpage.com/
Premium version:
gofullpage.com/premium

Example output:

Wired article (for archival purposes, this link points to the
archivedotorg capture I made on the same day as the image captured by the extension)
when captured by extension)
Image captured of the article by the extension

Disclaimer: I am not in any affiliated with this extension or author. I just really love software that works well."
"Not explicitly ""printing"", but this Chrome extension I found to be fantastic for the problem of ""rendered webpage -> png"". It's created by an independent developer, and in addition to being found on the Chrome Web Store, there's also a MIT-licensed version of it on GitHub, as well as a premium offering.

Full Page Screen Capture

Chrome Web Store page:
chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/full-page-screen-capture/fdpohaocaechififmbbbbbknoalclacl
MIT-licensed GitHub repo:
github.com/mrcoles/full-page-screen-capture-chrome-extension
Extension website: gofullpage.com/
Premium version:
gofullpage.com/premium

Example output:

Wired article (for archival purposes, this link points to the
archivedotorg capture I made on the same day as the image captured by the extension)
when captured by extension)
Image captured of the article by the extension

Disclaimer: I am not in any affiliated with this extension or author. I just really love software that works well."

bert [Entry]

"In LibreOffice Writer (version 6.3.5.2) you can export your document as JPG or PNG:

And then in the Export dialog:"

bert [Entry]

"Some printer drivers that can print to disk in various formats eg. pdf or png are available as shareware, trialware or freeware.
A free image printer driver is available here.
Haven't tried any of them though."