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I'm new to running Quicken on CrossOver, but when running under Parallels and Windows 10 I am able to export invoices as PDFs and save to the file system. I noticed that the driver for that kind of export is not installed via Quicken when running on CrossOver, so I was wondering if there was a way (i.e. hack/workaround/other) to get "printing/saving to PDF" like we have natively on macOS? Or some similar kind of functionality? Thanks! 😀

It feels like I'm close... I discovered the CUPS driver, and that seems like it's doing something (good), but when it exports, even though Preview is the default application for opening PDFs, the "Send to Kindle" app is getting launched instead. Super weird.

Any clues as to how to force Preview to open the exported document?

Well... I thought that uninstalling Send to Kindle would resolve the issue but now when it exports, nothing happens when it completes. 😥

Any suggestions at this point will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

After much work and unsuccessful attempts at installing CUPS-PDF and variants, I finally solved the issue by installing RWTS PDFwriter:

https://github.com/rodyager/RWTS-PDFwriter

Very straightforward to install, even though you can definitely sense its roots (see the history on GitHub). It's pretty fiddly and I had to add a symlink to have a friendly place to find my PDF documents.

Hi Evan,

Awesome, thanks for sharing! Glad to hear you got it working :)

Best,
Meredith

Hi All. Back again. 😀

I felt like I should report back because I ran into a little bit of a speed bump when I migrated to my new MacBook Pro M1 Max. Printing an invoice from Quicken resulted in nothing getting exported using the RWTS PDFwriter driver.

After thinking about it a bit, I just decided to go ahead and follow the installation instructions and reinstall the driver. So I shut down Quicken and CrossOver, reinstalled the driver, and then launched CrossOver and Quicken.

Thankfully, after reinstalling the driver, the printing worked! 😊