Yay Microsoft!
Office 12 to support PDF natively
Oh, the Office 12 team just announced native PDF support. That's big.
I agree. It sucks to be Adobe right now though as a huge chunk of their PDF related profit just went out the door but they really should have seen it coming and I'm sure they'll survive - they have enough going on around PDF that the Word document to PDF side of it won't be a major set back for them.
It's good to see Microsoft listening to user feedback and particularly in this case because this be a huge boon to interoperability. I'm so impressed by this I'll even hold back from mentioning how long ago I started enjoying integrated PDF support for all OS X apps (including Office:mac).
October 3rd, 2005 at 10:42 pm
Of course, Microsoft will probably end up licensing all of Adobe’s patents on PDF and related technology (things that OpenOffice.org can’t do). I somehow don’t see Adobe minding this too much.
October 5th, 2005 at 4:57 am
As with anything MS does, I’m sure this will suck too :-)
Equivalent of MS telling people they can “create web sites” using “Save as html…”
Until MS gets on board with OASIS, I don’t see anything to get excited about.
In other words, use OASIS (document definition xml standard), like openoffice.org or writely.com (web-based).