• MS Office 12 to Support PDF

    MS Office 12 to Support PDF

    Techtree News Staff, Oct 04, 2005 1428 hrs IST

    Microsoft has announced that it will introduce PDF support in its forthcoming version of Office, code-named "Office 12".

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Microsoft has announced that it will introduce PDF (Portable Document Format) support in its forthcoming version of Office, code-named "Office 12", scheduled for release in the second half of 2006.

In effect, users will be able to save documents in the PDF format, which is a popular method of sharing documents between different computers and software programs.

Reportedly, the PDF format will be integrated in MS Word, Excel, Publisher, PowerPoint and InfoPath among other applications. Microsoft maintains that the inclusion of PDF in Office 12, will further broaden the appeal of the program.

Microsoft says that it is adding the "save to PDF" feature, with a view towards satisfying users who want to share documents with people, including those who don't have MS Office.

However analysts regard Microsoft's move as a fall-out of the Massachusetts government's decision, to make the Open Document format a standard.

Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president - product development group, Microsoft Office, said that every month Microsoft received nearly 120,000 demands from users, requesting implementation of the PDF format.

However, Sinofsky failed to comment on whether users would be required to shell-out extra money, to save Office documents as PDF files.

PDF has been promoted by Adobe Acrobat and has several advantages, the most important being that it allows opening of documents in several systems/platforms.














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Muhammad Tahir
,Islamabad (Pakistan), on Feb 27, 2006 01:26 PM
please send me a brief topic if u have (difference between MS Word & MS Powerpoint)
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Gullu
,Faridabad, on Oct 13, 2005 09:03 AM
I really Appreciate the Forthcoming idea of saving Office doc in PDF format Waiting From a long time
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pcscil
,hyderabad, on Oct 09, 2005 07:45 PM
Already there are dozens of Tools available not to forget the special add ons that boosts the performance of document transaction operations..this is a good move but a very delayed move...there should be some deal b/w adobe and MS so not to worry..its MS problem.
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PARAM MADURAI62
,MADURAI, on Oct 08, 2005 09:51 PM
WHATEVER COMES IS TOO LATE ! WITH ALL THE AVAILABLE HUMAN RESOURCES IT IS TOO LATE. MICROSOFT SHOULD HAVE ADDED IT. GOD SAVE ADOBE ACROBAT. THEY SHOULD HAVE AN OFFICE SOFTWARE FOR OFFICES, UNIVERSITIES WITH PDF WRITING INCLUDED. THEY SHOULD HAVE A FULL FLEDGED RESEARCHER'S AID UNLIKE MSW
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ence
,Kolkata, on Oct 07, 2005 09:58 PM
For the present use a small freeware (available with TechTree) called PDF Converter which converts pdf files to txt files.
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Sam
,Seattle, on Oct 05, 2005 07:26 PM
Bad news for Adobe, people will stop using Adobe Reader in future. Instead Adobe should have done some plugin to read/create PDF files using MS Word.
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Bill Guts
,Masachussets, on Oct 06, 2005 07:14 PM
Why PDF...to access a PDF file one need a APP and also for a office file one needs an APP, so why PDF-OFFICE fun
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Falak Ahmed
,Overland Park, Kansas, on Oct 06, 2005 07:22 AM
At present.You can create PDF using any Office software and PDFCreator (opensource in sourceforge.net). the only problem is it doesnt allow copy protection. Available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/. This installs a printer named PDFCreator. Yes you have to install Ghostscript which is available on the same site. Just print the document to this printer and you have a nice looking PDF.
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Barney
,City 17, on Oct 04, 2005 10:51 PM
So, now Microsoft is copying OpenOffice ? What next: Microsoft Linux ?
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shree
,Chennai, on Oct 05, 2005 10:37 AM
Ya it not Microsoft Linux it will Winux
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Manish Singh
,Bangalore, on Oct 05, 2005 01:38 PM
Hee Hee now Adobe Acrobat has a competitor and that to Microsoft. God help Adobe Acrobat
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rupesh bawankul
,nagpur, on Oct 05, 2005 12:48 PM
no comments
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CP Asokan
,Chennai, on Oct 05, 2005 11:20 AM
You can use PDFCreator to create a .pdf file from any application that can print, leave alone MS Office. Free download available under Opensource. Visit http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator PDFCreator installs itself as a printer driver. From your app, print to this to create a .pdf file.
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Sanju
,lalsot, on Oct 05, 2005 10:25 AM
It seems Microsoft is not confident about the users's accptence of it s own baby "XPS"(XML Paper Specification (XPS) , which is being implemented in Windows Vista.For time being (next 2-3 year) there is no threat to PDF from XPS.
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Erik van Luxzen
,Utrecht, the Netherlands, on Oct 05, 2005 03:42 AM
Finally Microsoft comes with PDF export utilities? StarOffice had it since version 7, OpenOffice since version 1.1, so why should I pay $199 for a basic version of MS Office when I can get the same for free. And where does Microsoft get the guts to claim their tool to be more advanced than the OpenOffice! And btw, how comes Microsoft condemn the OASIS file format, while they donate and participate in the OASIS organisation (check the site: http://www.oasis-open.org/about/index.php).... But most important: Why does the media just copy and past without comments like these the Microsoft press-releases? Some more thorough journalism would do good to the truth!
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Erik van Luxzen
,Utrecht, the Netherlands, on Oct 05, 2005 03:15 AM
Finally Microsoft comes with PDF export utilities? StarOffice had it since version 7, OpenOffice since version 1.1, so why should I pay $199 for a basic version of MS Office when I can get the same for free. And where does Microsoft get the guts to claim their tool to be more advanced than the OpenOffice! And btw, how comes Microsoft condemn the OASIS file format, while they donate and participate in the OASIS organisation (check the site: http://www.oasis-open.org/about/index.php).... But most important: Why does the media just copy and past without comments like these the Microsoft press-releases? Some more thorough journalism would do good to the truth!
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Bhondai
,Kolkata, on Oct 05, 2005 12:06 AM
Too late, Google has teamed up with Sun, quite possibly to develop a browser based office suite similar to Zimbra (http://www.zimbra.com). The browser is the OS, and MS's worst nightmare
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g051nd
,Kumbakonam, on Oct 04, 2005 08:24 PM
Will Microsoft give this as free updation of MS Office2003
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Badari Narayana
,Chennai, on Oct 04, 2005 08:19 PM
OpenOffice already has this feature. What ever changes MS is likely to make, we can be sure that they will change colours, shortcut keys, and do cosmetic changes in their "totally revamped" software leaving us very frustrated.
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Dev
,Mumbai, on Oct 04, 2005 08:10 PM
Surprisingly, I was not aware that PDF is an open source, I and almost all of my friend circle felt its ADOBE Monopoly, Then if this is open source why Microsoft and others waited so..faaaar to include it into their software...???
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GAurav Upreti
,Noida, on Oct 04, 2005 07:08 PM
well tht was a very nice move by microsoft to onclude pdf format in office 12 when wil they be launching tht
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Shyam Sundar C
,Coimbatore, on Oct 04, 2005 04:33 PM
Anyway., lets hope M$ does'nt introduce his OWN Pdf standards., ( hey., i know PDF is an open standard )., but i know M$ is capable of doing such silly things.
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Martin
,Coeur D'Alene, ID, on Oct 04, 2005 03:22 PM
No, the REAL benefit of PDF is that -- when you send someone a document -- you know that when they print it out it will look EXACTLY the way that you created it, regardless of the printer or computer used to print the document. Word, etc. just cannot do that, even if Word is being used -- if the author's printer is different from the recipient's printer in any way, it's likely that the Word document will print differently. PDF eliminates this really stupid and very frustrating trate.
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Setu Garg
,Noida, on Oct 04, 2005 03:11 PM
Chalo bhai... Aakhirkaar...
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