Send to OneNote 2007, why it isn't there in 64-bit (x64)
I am hoping that the search engines will pick up this string for Send to OneNote 64bit, OneNote print driver x86, 64-bit OneNote Print to OneNote. I got the following email from someone:
I happened across your OneNote blog and thought you might be a good person to contact. I’ve discovered that you don’t get the “Print to OneNote” feature on 64-bit Vista… I did some web searching to try to find out more information, but mostly just found a bunch of annoyed users…
Do you know if this issue is going to be fixed anytime soon?
Well first of all the Send to OneNote 2007 print driver is currently not available on any of the 64-bit OSes. You can read about it in this KB article: The Microsoft Office Document Image Writer printer driver in Word 2007 and in OneNote 2007 is not installed on a computer that is running a 64-bit operating system. Pretty much the Microsoft Office Document Imaging tools are not available on 64-bit and therefore the Send to OneNote print driver isn't available.
As for the second part of the question, the more important issue. We are fully aware of the issue and we are looking to address this in a future release. Note: anything I mention on here can changed so just note that caveat, no promises. In the meantime if you really need this feature it is recommended that you run x86 and sorry for the inconvenience.
Update on 2008-04-23: David wrote more about this here: OneNote 64 bit print driver. Short story is that we will not have an update for OneNote 2007 to support the 64bit print driver and we are working on a solution for the next release of OneNote. More details after the fold: OneNote 64 bit print driver.
Update on 2009-05-05: David seems to have fixed this, detail here: OneNote Print Driver – A 64 Bit Solution, check it out!
Comments
Anonymous
December 04, 2007
PingBack from http://windowsworldnews.com/?p=3492Anonymous
December 04, 2007
Yes, you read that right. If you are running a 64-bit versions of Windows XP or Vista, you are missingAnonymous
December 05, 2007
What can I say?? Of course I understand that other companies are slow in releasing 64 bit drivers... but hello! this is the same company that offers us a 64bit OS and OneNote, so basically the app should behave same on every platform? But nope it does not... By the way, suggesting x86 in order to use Onenote is a joke, too... I want to install an application, not reinstall my whole system just to use a single feature! I guess this kind of issue is the reason why users switch to other OSes... Really disappointed.Anonymous
December 06, 2007
Off topic but kinda related. Running OneNote print driver x86 and therefore no problems with Send To OneNote function. But why oh will IE not send web pages via the OneNote Import Printer Driver to OneNote 2007. Frustrating to the point I've now gone back (again)to Firefox which has no problem with this task. Life before the wonderful OneNote is difficult to imagine but this occasional incompatibility between MS core products is really annoying. Patrick What would really complete my total admiration for OneNote would be a MS/OneNote version of a little gizmo called digiscibble which allows the capture of note taking from ordinary pen and paper. Ideal when you want to jot something down without opening up the pc - to be able to sync this with OneNote would be a dream come true. Send To OneNote 2007 and IEAnonymous
December 11, 2007
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December 13, 2007
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December 31, 2007
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February 20, 2008
What I am most curious about is that you mention that the problem will be addressed in a future release. What kind of release will this be? A service pack? Office 2010? I was hoping SP1 would have fixed this but alas no. Come on.Anonymous
February 24, 2008
This makes me want to scream. What are Microsoft playing at. This is a basic feature that has been omitted 'by design'. Do you have any further new on when they plan to fix this?Anonymous
March 06, 2008
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March 25, 2008
Sound as a joke ... When do I have the driver for Vista 64 ?Anonymous
March 31, 2008
Well, I'm at least glad I found this article so I can stop searching. I rely pretty heavily on this feature, so it's kind of bad that I have to use my other computer to print to the shared notebook, but I guess it's not the end of the world. I'll try to help get the word out.Anonymous
April 04, 2008
Absolutely unacceptable! Why it is so hard to do a 64-bit driver???Anonymous
April 05, 2008
I am perplexed with MS lack of response to this issue. As a college student, I will say that I'm in a large group of OneNote users. This, I believe, is perhaps one of the largest number of users by category. Printing to OneNote has become one of the integral tools for my note-taking, research projects, planning and scheduling, etc. Although there are ways to get around it, they are limited. For example, a screen clipping is limited to the visible portion on the screen. If a driver is nowhere to be found, perhaps tweaking other features would serve as a suitable solution. There are other competitors dying to take OneNote customers away (Evernote, etc). Don't fall asleep on this one, MS, you snooze, you loose!Anonymous
April 17, 2008
I completely agree with Nela, ( last comment). This is absurd that Microsoft would not make a driver for onenote an integral part of their new 2007 office suite. I love the program and with professors giving notes in powerpoint and pdf its hard to just toss everything into one note. I understand that Adobe Acrobat has started supporting x86-64 now why is microsoft denying its own customers the same support. I was given a SPECIAL, discounted price for x64 when purchasing it through HP. Now I know why it was discounted, too many problems. It's a pity I either have to downgrade and not have my 4gb ram show up or stay here and suffer with the lack of support from a software vendor that doesn't even support its NEW products ( office 2007 and Vista 64)Anonymous
April 21, 2008
The next version of Windows is apparently going to only be available in 64-bit. I have a 64-bit version of print to Windows Journal. I just bought a new tablet notebook, obviously in 64-bit to take advantage of the standard 4GB RAM these days, and bought Office 2007. I was amazed that one of the primary core features of OneNote 2007 was "designed out". This is like offering an electric hybrid car that you only find out later that has a serious horsepower cap in electric-only mode that makes the feature almost useless and the gas engine has to be used all the time. Just more management bloat from Microsoft, being late to the market as always. I guess I'll scrap oneNote and go buy some other product, like AskSam.Anonymous
April 24, 2008
I also am very upset about this. I continue to plug this application to everyone, as I have found it to be one of the best applications for some of the things I am doing. However, since updating to Vista 64 I have found Onenote's primary functionality of being able to capture data from pretty much anywhere gone, and now useless. So therefore have been unable to say what a wonderful product this is. One of the best products that Microsoft have made has for me been really badily impared, all for the lack of a driver..... sad.Anonymous
May 04, 2008
desculpe, não vou perder tempo traduzindo pra inglês. vocês têm funcionários brasileiros..... isso é um absurdo, o único tablet que me interessava (TX2000Z) NAO TINHA OPCÃO DE COMPRA SEM SISTEMA WINDOWS.... e já vinha com esse lixo de VISTA 64... OU SEJA, EU PAGUEI, E CARO, POR UM SISTEMA MAL FEITO... BEM O QUE O CARA DISSE, É "FAILURE BY DESIGN IS DESIGNING TO FAIL".... EU QUERO SUPORTE AO SEND TO ONENOTE NO VISTA 64 BITS... PODE TER CERTEZA QUE VOU CRITICAR PRA TODO MUNDO ESSA MICROSOFT QUE AGORA SIM ME DESAPONTOU DE VEZ....Anonymous
May 23, 2008
So, let me get this right. I have bought the "most advanced technology" MS has...and it is not compatable with its own app. And...MS is not willing to fix it. Ok....Anonymous
May 31, 2008
Add my voice as another very disappointed user. I love MS OneNote and recently bought a computer with MS XP 64-bit OS. To find out that my favorite program and one of it's most useful features won't work on my new MS OS is very disappointing. And we'll have to pay to upgrade OneNote once the issue is fixed? How very MS!Anonymous
June 15, 2008
I AM REALLY DISAPPOINTED TOO. I BOUGHT A TABLE PC FROM LENOVO WITH 4GB RAM WITH THE ONLY INTENTION OF USING THIS FEATURE OF ONENOTE, THAT HELPS ME TO ADD NOTES TO POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS AND DOCUMENTS WHEN REVIEWING THEM WHILE FLYING. REALLY CONVENIENT, BUT... HA, HA! IT DOESN'T WORK!!! AND THE SOLUTION THEY GIVE ME IS TO CHANGE TO A 32-bit??? AND LOOSE 1GB OF RAM??? REALLY DISAPPOINTED.Anonymous
June 20, 2008
Found a way to fully restore the "Send To OneNote" functionality. It involves installing a program called Zan Image Printer. See http://blog.nils-kaiser.de/?p=5 Greetings, NilsAnonymous
August 17, 2008
I am disappointed because I didnt have a choice and got vista64 which in general is quite nice. but it would have saved me many hours if MS would have put in the help or on the onenote website that the printer driver was not supported w/64bit vista. the lack of communication shows that MS is being sneaky and doesnt want anyone else to know about this little oversight... well if nothig else thanks for the info, i willstart looking for an alternative program tomorrow! JPAnonymous
August 24, 2008
OK so a lot of time has pasted, is there anyway to get this resolved with MS. How do we start a class action suite. There is nothing on my Offfice 2007 Ultima that tells me onenotes is not compatable with Vista 64, it says it is certified for Vista. I am like most, I do not want money abck or anything like that, I just want the OCR and Print ot Onenotes to work on my ew Vista 64 computer. Any clues how to get this started? JimAnonymous
September 26, 2008
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October 12, 2008
In case that you have not noticed yet, Office 2007 itself is 32 bit! :)Anonymous
October 12, 2008
Other than this issue which is unbelievable since MS produces the OS that OneNote can't work on, I think the help files for OneNote are probably the worst I have ever seen. MS seems to think they are just great though. They could have stuck with the old help file format and spent all that saved time to fix the worst problem of this program My main question is this. Why, after a rather large number of comments, all of which are negative, have we not seen a response from Daniel? My guess, based on his blog post is that MS doesn't particularly care about this issue.Anonymous
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THEY SHOULD HAVE HAD A NOTE REGARDING SAME ON THE OneNote casing, & webpage - I purchased a touchscreen notebook just for this application!!!Anonymous
February 24, 2009
While I must throw my agreement behind everyone that this is absurd--it is not uncommon. Last year I was eager to adopt WS2008 to take advantage of Hyper-V and some other features. When I went to install Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 I found out that it is not supported under WS2008. There's a pretty healthy number of Microsoft products that were recently released without support for Vista/WS2008. The only reason I ran across this issue is because I was working through my system log on a WS2008 terminal server and found it complaining that there was no driver for Microsoft Document Image Writer. Lo and behold it's because it doesn't exist for a 64-bit OS. sighAnonymous
April 11, 2009
I am still dealing with this issue. Today I opened WIndows Journal in my Vista 64 computer, and I was able to use the print (import) function just fine. It does what OneNote is supposed to do - opened the document in Word and placed a neat printout in my Journal note page. I don't understand why one MS program is able to do what another MS program lacks. I would hope that the two departments are able to trade secrets freely. :| Regarding the idea of including this feature in a future version instead of issuing a patch for 2007 is indeed unacceptable. I upgraded from OneNote 2003 BECAUSE of this feature. Do you mean to tell me that I will now need to purchase a third licence just for this???Anonymous
April 18, 2009
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May 04, 2009
David seems to have fixed this, detail here: http://blogs.msdn.com/david_rasmussen/archive/2009/04/22/onenote-print-driver-a-64-bit-solution.aspxAnonymous
July 04, 2009
dose this also work for microsoft document imaging?Anonymous
September 03, 2009
Try this solution, it works much better than the XPS workaround Onenoteprintdriver.blogspot.comAnonymous
September 21, 2009
The fix does not work for Windows 7 RTM, and that's kind of an important OS.Anonymous
June 03, 2011
Did they ever come up with a image writer 64bit printer driver. I have a customer who uses the document image writer exclusively for his work because he can put pictures into the modi format. They come out clear and with a small kb format so he can send it off to the printers. I know the got rid of office document imaging in 2010...