Hmm, I'm not sure what you describe is available, but it's pretty simple to make a PDF file, which may come reasonably close to what you want. In my case, my home printer is connected to a desktop PC and for reasons not relevant here prefer not to make it a shared printer. So instead I make hardcopies from the laptop by generating a PDF file, copying that to a USB keydrive, and printing from the PDF file on my desktop PC.

You could purchase the tools from Adobe, or you could do what I do:

1. I went to Add Printer and told Windows I have an "APS-PS PIP with APS-6-108 v49.3 or 52.2" printer (I don't); there's nothing special about this, it's just a PostScript printer covered by the included drivers with Windows XP Pro, probably any PostScript printer driver would do.

2. I installed GhostScript and GSView (google for these, both are free and open source tools that can be downloaded).

To make a PDF, I print to the PostScript printer, AND I CHECK THE "Print To File" option in the print settings dialog box, and specify a filename ending in '.ps' for the destination. This makes a PostScript file. Then I open that PS file in GSView and use the "Convert" option to make a PDF file.

My way did not cost me a penny, and makes PDF files that Acrobat has no trouble viewing, but takes a little effort on my part. Buying the Acrobat tools from Adobe costs money, but then you get a "PDFWriter" choice under printers and can make PDF files in a single step by printing to that.

And if you are really an open-source purist, you can even dispense with the (free as in beer but not open-source) Acrobat Viewer and use Ghostscript tools to view and print PDF files...