Office 2007, XPS, and PDF

[Martin Bosworth]

Here's an article from CNet News that sums up the situation fairly well:

http://news.com.com/2003-12_3-0.html?tag=nefd

I'm curious as to why Adobe is drawing the line in the sand with
Office 2007 when, as Heiner notes, full PDF integration is already a
standard feature of alternate operating systems.

Martin

On 6/5/06, Nuckols, Kenneth M <Kenneth.Nuckols at mybrighthouse.com> wrote:
> Dan Goldstein wrote...
>
> >
> > My understanding of the latest brou-ha-ha is that MS is dropping an
> > internal "Save as PDF" option. All the myriad ways that we create PDFs
> > from Office files should continue to work fine -- right?
> >
>
> Dan may be spot-on with the ultimate upshot of the breakdown, but the
> latest news I heard on Friday was that Adobe and Microsoft have broken
> off their talks in how to integrate the ability to create PDFs into the
> next version of Microsoft Office. The report I heard (on a podcast from
> Kiplinger, I believe) said that Microsoft was anticipating a court
> filing by Adobe, but I can't recall if they were expecting Adobe to try
> to force inclusion or exclusion of the PDF capability or if it was
> simply a disagreement over monetary terms or some other issue.
>