Office 12 will have Native PDF support
Steven
Sinofsky (SVP, Office) announced Saturday that Office
12 will have native PDF support.
Sure, there are plenty of /. style comments to be made on how most users
would have ranked this feature a little higher than Clippy in the Office
roadmap, and that the free OpenOffice has supported PDF for a while
now. Sure enough, /.
picked this up and the original announcement post has plenty of slasher
angst-ridden comments.
I'm just happy to see this feature included. Office 12 is really shaping up
to be a significant upgrade, which is hard to do with version 12 of
anything.
I'd like to see PowerPoint export of SWF, as OO does.
In the meantime, there are plenty of free options for creating PDF's from
Office[1]:
- I use PrimoPDF, a free PDF print
driver
- CutePDF
uses the opensource GhostScript (a pdf suite of tools), You do not need to
install Ghostscript
- PDFCreator is an
open source option
Got a PDF alternative you'd like to recommend?
[1] from Don Good -
thanks!
