Office “12″ will offer native support for PDF
Brian Jones is a program manager in Office who’s been working on the XML functionality and file formats in the productivity suite for five years. Yesterday he bid up the rumored PDF capability in Office “12″ :
This afternoon Steven Sinofsky announced to our MVPs that we will build in native support for the PDF format in Office “12″. I constantly get asked by customers if we can build in this support for publishing documents as PDF files, and now I can thankfully say “yes!” It’s something we’ve been hearing about for years, and earlier in this project we decided that while there were already existing third party tools for doing this, we should do the work to build the functionality natively into the product.
PDF support will be built into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, OneNote, Visio, and InfoPath. It will work in combination with the new Open XML formats in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. “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!”
[Via Scobleizer]
Ho hum…yet another piece of functionality that Open Office users have had for years now.
Open XML: too bad ‘open’ doesn’t mean ’standard’. Nice to see Massachusetts saw the difference :)
Oh crap…I can’t be caught reading a Microsoft blog!
You saw nothing…
Yes, Jon, I have Open Office as well as MS Office. I downloaded Open Office principally for the PDF creator. However, it doesn’t have anything like the functionality of Acrobat, so I never use it now, and MS Office remains my productivity suite of choice.