John Meyer wrote: > Andy Luddy wrote: >> John Meyer wrote: > >> I don't believe they ever did support it. The ability to view PDFs >> was provided by downloading and installing Acrobat Reader or a >> similar application; the ability to create PDFs was provided by >> installing a pseudo printer driver from Adobe or someone similar, or >> by an application (like OOo) including it in the application. No >> support ever (correct me if I am mistaken) was coming from MS.
The point here is that MS announced that its new version of Office would be able to produce PDF documents natively; MS has now retracted that. I quote from http://news.com.com/Microsoft+to+support+PDF+in+Office+12/2100-1012_3-5887532.html Harold Fuchs London, England =========== begin Quote ============ By Martin LaMonica Staff Writer, CNET News.com Published: October 3, 2005, 3:31 PM PDT update Microsoft will enable people to publish documents in the Adobe Systems PDF format with Office 12, a company product manager said Saturday. Office 12, which is expected to be completed by the second half of 2006, will let end users take an Office document and convert it to PDF, Brian Jones, a program manager for Microsoft Office, said in a blog posting. People will not be able to actually read PDF files from within Office applications; a PDF viewer will still be required, he noted. The PDF support will be built into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, OneNote, Visio and InfoPath, Jones said. "We've really heard the feedback that sharing documents across multiple platforms and long-term archiving are really important," Jones said in his blog. "People now have a couple options here, with the existing support for HTML and RTF, and now the new support for open XML formats and PDF." =============== end quote ========== --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
