How to print from Windows Reader on Windows 11 (Windows 11 PDF Reader)


By default Windows 11 does not have the ability to print PDF from Windows 11 PDF Reader (usually PDF documents are opened in Microsoft Edge Browser).

You can take advantage of PDF2Printer for Windows 11 to print PDF files to any Windows printer. In Windows Explorer or anywhere you can see your PDF file, simply right-click on your PDF document, and choose Print,

After you confirm your Print command, you will get the following dialog to choose the target printer,

Click the above Print button to confirm the printing, and go to your printer for the output. You can choose Microsoft XPS Document Writer printer as your target printer, and you will get the XPS file as the output. In this simple way you convert PDF to XPS without any difficulty.

Options available:

Print to a specified printer
You can print to a specific printer, system default printer, or choose to select a printer in the print dialog at runtime.

Smart Rotation
Automatic rotation of PDF pages is featured. You can disable the rotation at any time you want.

Smart Scaling
Shrink large pages and expand small pages to fit on medium.

Flexible Configuration
Configure the available settings with the PDF2Printer Configuration Manager. It's a freeware program.

Batch PDF Printing
Print PDF to your printer in batch with the PDF2Printer Batch Print tool. Offered totally free of charge.

Command-line Operability
Control the print process with command line switches. You can print from the PDF Reader with /P option to print from command line. A commercial license is required. Please contact support@win11pdf.com.

64-bit optimization
On Windows 11 64-bit operating system, PDF2Printer sends PDF to printer as twice as much faster than on 32-bit.


All products support Microsoft Windows 11 x64 (64-bit) and x86 (32-bit), and are backward compatible with Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server, 2012, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, and Windows Server 2022.