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By Jennifer Jones
Posted on ZDNet News: Sep 12, 2006 4:54:00 PM

Microsoft has released a free download that will enable Office 2007 users to save documents in both Adobe Systems' PDF format and Microsoft's own rival format, XPS.

The add-on works with the different planned versions of Office 2007, which is now in beta testing and expected to be made generally available by the end of the year.

According to the release notes of the download, people can save a document or send an e-mail attachment in PDF or XPS format.

Both formats are designed to keep layout consistent for viewing and printing.

The Save as PDF feature, announced last October, prompted Adobe to threaten to file an antitrust complaint against Microsoft in June.

In response, Microsoft changed its plans and decided to offer the feature as a separate download rather than have it included within Office 2007.

Microsoft executives have said that Save as PDF was one of the features most requested by its Office customers.

Microsoft has released a free download that will enable Office 2007 users to save documents in both Adobe Systems' PDF format and Microsoft's own rival format, XPS.

The add-on works with the different planned versions of Office 2007, which is now in beta testing and expected to be made generally available by the end of the year.

According to the release notes of the download, people can save a document or send an e-mail attachment in PDF or XPS format.

Both formats are designed to keep layout consistent for viewing and printing.

The Save as PDF feature, announced last October, prompted Adobe to threaten to file an antitrust complaint against Microsoft in June.

In response, Microsoft changed its plans and decided to offer the feature as a separate download rather than have it included within Office 2007.

Microsoft executives have said that Save as PDF was one of the features most requested by its Office customers.

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Standard part of any app in OS X
Any application that uses Apple's standard printing API in OS X gets to do this.

I'm pretty upset at Adobe. They have long used their increasingly monopolistic market muscles to stall the indus... (Read the rest)
Posted by: Resuna Posted on: 10/13/06 You are currently: Logged In | Log out
Thanks Adobe for screwing with one Boot_Agnostic   | 09/12/06
Wa Wa Wa What? BitTwiddler   | 09/12/06
Is that soundbite correctly spelled Boot_Agnostic   | 09/12/06
no need for M$ office anyways Linux Geek   | 09/12/06
Or StarOffice, Corel, Lotus Smartsuite Boot_Agnostic   | 09/12/06
Print driver conversion is much better Prognosticator   | 09/12/06
MS already has print to file convertion... JoeMama_z   | 09/12/06
Adobe was upset? tommyhobbes   | 09/12/06
Then here is a refresher Confused by religion   | 09/12/06
You can do this already with other free apps astrogeek   | 09/12/06
Another Example of Design by Legals mighetto   | 09/12/06
Uh... Several Open Source Linux User 147560   | 09/12/06
Adobe seems fine with it for those Boot_Agnostic   | 09/12/06
Cross platform PDF printers ibabadur1   | 09/12/06
Heck, never mind individual applications.... Michael Kelly   | 09/12/06
But few vertical applications TerryNT   | 09/12/06
PDF reDirect may be the solution TerryNT   | 09/12/06
Safari trm1945   | 09/12/06
Isn't it pathetic... artifice   | 09/12/06
Quit the OS Wars in these Forums TerryNT   | 09/13/06
Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. bdoserr   | 09/13/06
OSS is a new day and a new market model Boot_Agnostic   | 09/13/06
I wouldn't Want it anyway ;) Aaron A Baker   | 09/15/06
Adobe works okay? jeff_j_black@...   | 09/20/06
Standard part of any app in OS X Resuna   | 10/13/06

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