There's both good news and bad news for Office 2007 users who are waiting to have PDF print features in Office 2007 programs with having to invest in Adobe Acrobat like software.The bad news first - Following the tussle with Adobe, Microsoft has removed native PDF printing support and XPS export capabilities from all Office 2007 programs.
Now the good news - Microsoft today separately released a free add-on for Office 2007 that will allow users to export their Word documents or Excel Spreadsheets as PDF files without requiring a third-party PDF printing driver.
The Save as PDF addin lets you export and save to the PDF format in all Microsoft Office programs. It also allows you to send files as e-mail attachments in the PDF format.
The plugins are compatible with all Microsoft Office 2007 programs including Access, Excel, Infopath, Word, Visio, Publisher, Powerpoint and OneNote.
Download Microsoft Office 2007 Add-in: Save As PDF, Save As XPS
You can download both the PDF and XPS plugins in one installer here.
Licensing Issues: The program website says that the Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS Add-in for 2007 Microsoft Office programs supplements and is subject to the license terms for the Microsoft 2007 Office system beta software. You may not use this supplement if you do not have a license for the software.
Adobe PDF vs Microsoft XPS Format - Which is better document format ?
Update: The Microsoft Save as PDF plugin won't work with Outlook 2007 emails.
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Reader Comments
I cannot even tell you how angry I am. After purchasing a new computer loaded with vista and ms 2007, I then purchased the new adobe suite (which cost more than my computer). Today I am trying to get important documents out only to find that ms 2007 does not support adobe 8 - I am pissed. This has indeed increased my hatred for the way MS does "business".
Written on 27/4/07 1:17 AM
Its not MS' fault. The opposite! Adobe does not yet support MS 2007 as Acrobat was released prior to MS Office 2007. Its Adobe's responsibility to provide an update
Written on 30/5/07 6:54 PM
well thats not true.....in acrobat you can click export...to microsoft word document. DONE!
Written on 4/6/07 6:48 PM
3rd poster: you must be a bit slow. Word has retained the same format between 97-2003 so of course it'd be easy for Adobe to export to it. If it's anyone's fault, it's Adobe's fault for changing their formats in between. Maybe you should force all software companies to stop updating file formats fullstop?
Written on 13/6/07 10:23 AM
The validation tool from Microsoft does not work. I replaced a laptop and brought over MS Office 2003, then purchased an upgrade to Office 2007, now I get the validation issue raised. I have receipts for all purchases, Microsoft is not supporting their own products and in addition are erroneously accusing people of piracy.
Written on 20/9/07 6:04 AM
If you're on a PC you can do this now, for free (as opposed to the pay versions of PDF exporting). CutePDF is a great, PDF online does it online...and Adobe can convert text or HTML too.
See / try also :
- Free Text To PDF Converter is a free program that can be used to convert plain text file to PDF file, it doesn't depend on the Acrobat or Acrobat Reader application. www.verypdf.com/txt2pdf/index.htm
- But...actually I have used doPDF v5 software (printer driver) freely from www.NovaPDF.com without any error and so easy and simple without ad banner.
Written on 9/11/07 1:47 PM