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Pretty straightforward: I want to export the flight plan created by FS9 to a PDF so I can transfer the info to my Kindle. Is this a simple possibility, or would I have to create the PDF from scratch?

Not that you want to, but could you print it out on paper?

I ask because I used to print to PDF using Bullzip PDF Printer for use on my tablet.

It's free and has never failed me.


If you're using
Plan-G v3.1:

Asking if I have a printer? Nope. I guess my real question is can I convert the displayed information in FS into ANY form other than sending it to a printer?

Travis wrote:Asking if I have a printer? Nope. I guess my real question is can I convert the displayed information in FS into ANY form other than sending it to a printer?

I'm sorry. I didn't say that right.


The question that I asked was "could you print it out on paper?"

I asked that because, if you could print to paper you could ALSO print to PDF

OldAirmail wrote:Not that you want to, but could you print it out on paper?

I ask because I used to print to PDF using Bullzip PDF Printer for use on my tablet.

I also mentioned a program that works in both FS2004 & FSX. That program permits you to print out your flight plan.

And as I said above, if you could print to paper you can ALSO print to PDF


In case you are unaware, you don't need a printer to print to PDF format. Just say'n.

Why are you shouting at

him

?

Just say'n

gwillmot wrote:Why are you shouting at

him

?

Just say'n

I thought that my original message was simple: If it's possible to print a flight plan, it's possible to print to a PDF file that he could use on his Kindle.

That was, after all, what he wanted.


His reply

Travis wrote:Asking if I have a printer? Nope. I guess my real question is can I convert the displayed information in FS into ANY form other than sending it to a printer?

showed that I had not made it clear.

But, any intentional or unintentional condescension aside, when I asked about something to attempt this your only bit of advice boils down to "buy this product" as far as I was able to tell. I have always thought of these boards as a place to find practical advice for the practice of aviation (or at least it was when I started using the boards 10 years ago). I could easily have found said payware on Google or by searching various other sim sites, but I enjoy SimV for the community aspect, and your suggestion was less than friendly to begin with.

You can try this, I am not sure if this will work as I have never tried it. Want you want to do here is to save the flight plan than go to where the flight plan was saved at and right click on it and use the SAVE AS option you can than change the extension type of the file I would try a TXT file first
Like I said this might not work correctly.
Flight plans are saved as a pln file type which is designed to be opened by Flight Simulator.
If you change the file type or the extension as it is called the result might not be something that you can read.
Usually one would use a PDF converter program to change a file to a PDF document
However I am not sure if you can do this or not .
Another way of doing this without printing any thing is to make a hand written copy on a pad or something than open up a PDF file maker program and put it into it.

You can open a FS9 flight plan (.PLN) in LibreOffice Writer which is freeware. https://www.libreoffice.org/
It can then be exported as a PDF file. Hope this helps.



PS. Notepad will also open it.

Travis wrote:But, any intentional or unintentional condescension aside, when I asked about something to attempt this your only bit of advice boils down to "buy this product" as far as I was able to tell. I have always thought of these boards as a place to find practical advice for the practice of aviation (or at least it was when I started using the boards 10 years ago). I could easily have found said payware on Google or by searching various other sim sites, but I enjoy SimV for the community aspect, and your suggestion was less than friendly to begin with.

I proposed two pieces of software that may do what you ask.


Bullzip is free.



Plan-G is donation-ware. It will work 100%, and forever, whether you donate or not.



It will work with your software.


You may take my offering and twist it anyway you want to.

Ah! Look at that: I sucked out loud. My apologies. I didn't see that link; I thought it was a footnote addendum to the one before it. Now that I take a look at it (and if I'm reading your posts right) it will do what I really need which is accurate flight planning with a fully printable readout. Thanks for that!

Hagar, up until just now, I never knew you could open flight plans with notepad. It never occurred to me to try that since they were written with just the FS framework in mind. Having them open in Notepad++ actually makes it easy to piece different ones together. I think I found my new favorite FS tool!

Travis wrote:Ah! Look at that: I sucked out loud. My apologies. I didn't see that link; I thought it was a footnote addendum to the one before it. Now that I take a look at it (and if I'm reading your posts right) it will do what I really need which is accurate flight planning with a fully printable readout. Thanks for that!

Hagar, up until just now, I never knew you could open flight plans with notepad. It never occurred to me to try that since they were written with just the FS framework in mind. Having them open in Notepad++ actually makes it easy to piece different ones together. I think I found my new favorite FS tool!

It would appear that your twisted offerings and apologies for sucking can now be accepted ...... carry on ......

gwillmot wrote:

Travis wrote:Ah! Look at that: I sucked out loud. My apologies. I didn't see that link; I thought it was a footnote addendum to the one before it. Now that I take a look at it (and if I'm reading your posts right) it will do what I really need which is accurate flight planning with a fully printable readout. Thanks for that!

Hagar, up until just now, I never knew you could open flight plans with notepad. It never occurred to me to try that since they were written with just the FS framework in mind. Having them open in Notepad++ actually makes it easy to piece different ones together. I think I found my new favorite FS tool!

It would appear that your twisted offerings and apologies for sucking can now be accepted ...... carry on ......

Gwill...who exactly are you trying to start the flame war with? Your response is targeted at 2 users from what I can tell, and in general, is a weak attempt. Your enlightened responses to this thread have done nothing to further the transfer of knowledge.

Why so angry dude?

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