Today in the computer world there are so many extensions used to identify file types that many users simply have a head spin. One of these is the PRN format. How to open it, now it will be considered (especially since there are not so many options).
What a PRN file can be: basic options
To begin with, we note that this format in its initial form is universal for many systems, because if someone has already noticed an abbreviation, it most closely resembles the English word print. Such files may be present on both Windows and Mac OS X.
However, this is only one side of the coin. In fact, such an extension can also occur in some office files created using non-standard packages. They are also sometimes assigned a PRN extension. How to open such objects, we will consider a little later. In the meantime, we dwell on the basic, basic version.
PRN extension: how to open in a standard form?
So, as mentioned above, we have before us the file format responsible for printing documents. If we consider the file of this type itself, it is a set of commands for a specific printer installed in the system, which the driver sends to the device when the document is printed. In principle, when it comes to “apple” systems, the question of how to open a PRN file is solved quite simply. You can simply drag it onto the printer icon on the desktop, after which the printing process will be activated.
On Windows systems, such files are also found. Most often they appear at the moment when the user sets the so-called print to a file using a call to the MS Office Document Imagine program, which is included in the standard package package.
If you look more closely at the PRN format than open it, it will become clear if you use graphical viewer utilities like ACD See, ACD System Canvas, Free Raw Print.
However, you can do much easier by using the Adobe Acrobat package to open this format. In this case, the program will work as a graphical application with recognition elements previewing the contents of the file before starting to print.
PRN file: what else to open?
But that is not all. The fact is that the PRN format can sometimes be found among files created using the Lotus 1-3 office suite. In this case, the content is not just formatted text, but a spreadsheet that was exported to a text file, for example, for exchanging data between applications.
How to open it? Naturally, the decision suggests the use of a “native” table processor. But in order not to waste time installing it (few people use it), the easiest way is to open the file in the well-known Excel editor. Such data is opened without problems.
Conclusion
As you can see, the PRN format itself turns out to be familiar to many, despite the fact that users did not know before which program this extension was associated with. Well, as for the opening methodology, for starters, you can try to print a document if it is just an object intended for a printer. Otherwise, it is recommended to use either viewers, or Acrobat, or Excel. In general, in any case, there is a solution.
The most common is the printer format. The fact is that almost nobody uses the Lotus package today, and it is very rare to find files based on it. However, even for printing, you can use the same Adobe Acrobat, so to speak, killing two birds with one stone (both viewing and printing, provided that the user does not need to edit the file). In general, as already clear, no one should have problems with this format.