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Office 12 to Include Native PDF Support

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the pdf-and-the-tower-of-babel dept.

parry writes "Microsoft announced today at the MVP summit that Office 12, the next version of Microsoft Office, will have native support for the PDF document format. Support will be built into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, OneNote, Visio, and InfoPath." From the article: "Currently, on our OfficeOnline site, we are seeing over 30,000 searches per week for PDF support. That makes a pretty easy decision"

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  1. How "native"? Importing too? by codergeek42 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does this mean it will have PDF-import capabilities too? Or is this just export-only? It says on the article that it can publish to PDF. Just curious...

  2. Now if only... by Deacon_Yermouf · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... they could incorporate a minimalist, fast pdf viewer into Windows itself, I would happy. Ever since zip support was incorporated into XP, I've been so pleased that I've had no reason to download winzip. And the Windows "Picture and Fax" image viewer is exactly what I had wanted for a while- a fast, simple way to view images, zoom in, etc. That's what I would want for .pdf's in Windows, a simple way to quickly open, view, and print. And with Adobe's latest offerings getting bigger, more bloated, and more irritating with each new release, believe me, it can't come fast enough. Thank God for www.oldversion.com.

  3. 4.5 years after OS X had PDF file output standard by XavierItzmann · · Score: 5, Interesting
    OS X 10.0 (Cheetah), March 24, 2001
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X

    "Redmond, start your photocopiers"

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  4. PDF Printer Driver by mlewan · · Score: 5, Interesting
    A solution that would be kinder to the competition would be to have a system wide PDF printer driver, like MacOS X has. In that way you could print to PDF from any application.

    Isn't there such a thing hanging around as freeware already in Windows, btw?

  5. ahhhhh!!! by GimmeFuel · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Anyone else cringe when they read this?

    native support for the PDF document format

    In other words,

    native support for the Portable Document Format document format

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