PDF support in Office 2007
I’ve had someone tell me that PDF support in Office 2007 was removed. I did a bit of research, and here’s what I came up with: after last year’s official announcement of PDF support in Office 2007, a recent legal complaint coming from Adobe did indeed make Microsoft remove the native PDF support from Office 2007, but as a workaround Microsoft will offer it as a (free) separate download. Even more so, XPS support will also be available as a separate download as well.
Hopefully Adobe will realize their mistake, since there are other office suites that already support PDF output. Going after Microsoft and asking them to charge the customers extra for the “Save as PDF” capability was a really poor decision, especially with PDF being a (self-declared) open format. Anyway, PDF support will be there, it’s just that you’ll have to go through a few more extra clicks to have it…
