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to: Rich Gauszka
from: Rich
date: 2006-06-04 13:19:18
subject: Re: Microsoft to Drop PDF Support in Office

From: "Rich" 

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   Not weird at all.  This isolates this specific feature such that if =
there is any legal action it has no effect on the main product.

Rich

  "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message =
news:44832685{at}w3.nls.net...

  This is weird. MS won't include the pdf save capability in the box but =
will=20
  provide it as a free download? Of course you will probably have to =
jump=20
  through WGA hoops when you do the download

  http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/6/3/4207

  "There have been a ton of really great comments and questions today in =

  relation to the news that we are going to have to pull our PDF and XPS =

  publish support out of Office 2007. We will still offer the PDF and =
XPS=20
  publish functionality as a free download, but due to pressure from =
Adobe we=20
  are not able to ship it in the box."



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Rich
 

  "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka{at}hotmail.com>">mailto:gauszka{at}hotmail.com">gauszka{at}hotmail.com>
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