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Adobe yet to explain why no PDF in Microsoft Office
By Stan Beer
itwire.com.au
Saturday, June 3, 2006
Microsoft has born the brunt of criticism for its massive
domination of the computer desktop since the release of
Windows 95. For once, however, it is not Microsoft that
has some explaining to do. Microsoft's decision not to
include the ability to save files to Adobe's PDF format
in its upcoming Office 2007 product, after arguments with
Adobe, is bad news for users. Adobe really needs to
explain to the world why it has forced Microsoft to do
this.
At present, both Microsoft's open source office suite
rival, Open Office.org 2.0, as well as Apple's Mac OSX
operating system, provide the facility to save documents
as PDF (Portable Document Format) files. The PDF has
become a widely used defacto standard for publishing non
editable paginated documents. An argument could be made
that excluding the same facility from Office 2007 that is
provided freely elsewhere is unfair discrimination.
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By Stan Beer
itwire.com.au
Saturday, June 3, 2006
Microsoft has born the brunt of criticism for its massive
domination of the computer desktop since the release of
Windows 95. For once, however, it is not Microsoft that
has some explaining to do. Microsoft's decision not to
include the ability to save files to Adobe's PDF format
in its upcoming Office 2007 product, after arguments with
Adobe, is bad news for users. Adobe really needs to
explain to the world why it has forced Microsoft to do
this.
At present, both Microsoft's open source office suite
rival, Open Office.org 2.0, as well as Apple's Mac OSX
operating system, provide the facility to save documents
as PDF (Portable Document Format) files. The PDF has
become a widely used defacto standard for publishing non
editable paginated documents. An argument could be made
that excluding the same facility from Office 2007 that is
provided freely elsewhere is unfair discrimination.
More at:
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/4509/53/
Jai Maharaj
http://tinyurl.com/a5ljc
http://www.mantra.com/jai
Om Shanti
Hindu Holocaust Museum
http://www.mantra.com/holocaust
Hindu life, principles, spirituality and philosophy
http://www.hindu.org
http://www.hindunet.org
The truth about Islam and Muslims
http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate
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have been authored by, and do not necessarily represent the opinion of the
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