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Friday, August 20, 2004
OneNote Virtual Printer PowerToy
I love OneNote and have grown dependent on it. However, one of my biggest complaints has been the lack of a virtual printer. (See my previous article Three Missing Features in OneNote.)
Unlike Windows Journal, GoBinder, or TabletPlanner, there's not been an easy way to get an external document into OneNote. The recently-released SP1 of OneNote added the ability to import some Microsoft Office documents. However, that left me with cumbersome workarounds for documents like PDFs, Web pages, etc. Until now.
Fortunately, Darron Devlin has just released a new OneNote PowerToy he calls The OneNote Image Writer PowerToy.
I downloaded it and installed it in about three minutes. Man, is it slick—and fast! I printed a ten-page PDF into OneNote in less than five seconds. Amazing!
If I sound enthusiastic about this PowerToy, I am. This fixes two of my three complaints about OneNote. The only thing I still want is the ability to insert user-friendly hyperlinks. Hopefully, someone will develop a PowerToy for this as well.
August 20, 2004 at 07:30 AM in Microsoft OneNote | Permalink
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Comments
Thanks, Michael, for letting us know about this.
This is a big addition to the OneNote product and huge thank you to Darron.
Posted by: Rob Bushway | Aug 20, 2004 8:22:51 AM
Working great here, just wish the install process would set up the printer itself so didn't have to go through the manual process. :) I echo your complaint, as I thought for sure that a Virtual Printer would have been an SP1 feature, but alas. :)
Posted by: Christopher Coulter | Aug 20, 2004 2:17:13 PM
Also the other Powertoy, WebPageToOneNote.
http://www.analogreality.com/onenotepowertoys/WebPageToOneNote.htm
Posted by: Christopher Coulter | Aug 20, 2004 3:41:45 PM
Great addition -but can't get the word printing to work. any thoughts?
br
Matt
Posted by: Matt | Aug 21, 2004 4:44:12 AM
It doesn't work in my case either. OneNote just says "can not import XML file", and I don't know how to get it to work.
Posted by: 3M | Aug 24, 2004 11:12:54 AM
It does not work for me either. I select the printer, select the section in onenote then OK but nothing happens the one note pages are still blank.
Any ideas
Pablo
Posted by: Pablo | Aug 30, 2004 10:41:19 PM
Just be surfing around in net. I definitely fpund a very informal place with a lot of good stuff for everybody. I will
certainly visit your site again sometime. Really good work.
Posted by: Norman John | Nov 23, 2004 3:05:13 AM
A friend told me of your site. That´s definitely what i was looking for. I will surely recommend you.
Posted by: Anna Luise | Jan 18, 2005 4:05:16 AM
what happened to the Powertoy Image Writer link? Please help!
Posted by: jmm | Nov 22, 2005 4:06:47 PM
Hello,
Anyone with any recent knowledge of the status of Darron's power toy as well as the WebPage to OneNote?
I was recommend the two but have had no luck locating their active websites. Any thought would be appreciated.
John
Posted by: John | Dec 23, 2005 2:12:30 PM
Yeah, I can't get Darron's OneNote site to come up either. Maybe somebody who has the imagewriter could just post the file up for download... (Mr Hyatt?)
Posted by: AJ | Jan 24, 2006 4:02:10 PM
hello! i am searching for that image writer powertoy for so long and i didn't find it yet. if anyone of you has it, please email it to me and i will post it on my server so that others can download it again. thank you!
Posted by: Alex | May 7, 2006 4:34:19 PM
Did anyone get a hold of the OneNote image writer powertoy?
Posted by: Arker | Oct 30, 2006 10:36:12 PM
