09-08-2006, 12:46 PM | #1 |
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MS Office 2007 add-on exports to PDF and XPS
When Microsoft got threatened by a lawsuit from Adobe in June this year, the Redmond company walked the Buddhist way and removed PDF export from Office 2007. But since it would've been a shame to dump the already written code, the company now decided to release a free add-on which brings back the functionality to export and save to the PDF and XPS formats.
You can download the add-on from here if you have a genuine Office installation. [via BetaNews] |
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In that case, releasing the support as add-on won't change anything. I suspect this is Microsoft's way of telling Adobe that there has been no hanky-panky -- embraced but not extended. Though I can't figure out why unextended PDF support should have been removed in the first place ... . Added later: I've just found the following piece of analysis which quotes from Adobe's SEC filings, which suggests that it's more to this than just a lets-keep-the-standard-clean measure. Last edited by ath; 09-09-2006 at 05:17 AM. Reason: Added link to analysis citing other evidence. |
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