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Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS for Office 2007
When I started beta testing Office 2007, one of the things that I initially noticed was that the ability to save a document as a PDF was baked right in. "Finally!" I thought to myself; this is something Apple has been doing in the operating system forever, and it just makes sense. Of course, that wasn't the end of it. Adobe caught wind of the situation, and decided to make life uncomfortable for Microsoft - even now, I have no idea why they'd do that. In response, MS did what it has to do in these post-antitrust times, and folded like a cheap tent - removing the ability to save documents to the PDF file format. Frustrating, right? Well, apparently Adobe doesn't mind the ability to save to PDF format to be included in an Office add-in, so that's exactly what Microsoft has done. If you're running Office 2007, and you'd like this ability, head on over to the Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS page, and download the add-in. If it wasn't already clear, this add-in will only work in Office 2007, which is currently in beta, but will be widely released next year to coincide with the release of Windows Vista.
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Subscribe to commentsEagle117Nov 27th 2006 2:30PM
Actually, Office 2007 is done and RTM, but it won't be released publicly until Jan.
Gardiner WestboundNov 27th 2006 3:03PM
As the author points out, Adobe's isn't acting sensibly. It takes a dim view of MS Office 2007's ability to directly produce pdf files but overlooks the same feature in Apple OS, OpenOffice and numerous other open source and freeware utilities and applications.
JoseNov 27th 2006 8:30PM
How will this add be different from those little icons that show up when you actually install Acrobat? I've always seen them in the MS Office toolbar and are next to useless.