Microsoft ships PDF add-in for Office 2007
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Users who have wanted to save Microsoft Office documents in Adobe's PDF were frustrated earlier this year when Redmond announced it would not include the capability as a native function in Office 2007 as it had previously announced.
Now, Microsoft has announced it is shipping the capability as a free downloadable add-in for Office 2007. In fact, the add-in enables users to save in either PDF or in Microsoft's proprietary Office XML Paper Specification.
Microsoft had initially planned to ship the native PDF capability built into Office 2007. However, complaints from Adobe prompted the company to pull back from those plans in June.