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John_Vella

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Re: Windows 8 to kill off Adobe Reader?

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	vdbswong wrote: Didn't MS get into some trouble with regards to PDFs when they released Office 2007 and changed over to .docx? I thought they tried to implement PDF reading into Word (or something similar) and got jumped on by Adobe or another company.

They wanted to print/export directly from Office 2007 to PDF and XPS. Adobe said no way in hell, users should still buy Adobe Acrobat to generate PDFs... Users could download the PDF export as an add-on, but Microsoft agreed not to include it as standard.

3 years later and it was a standard part of Office 2010.

Isn't that because Office 2007 was released before PDF became an open standard and Office 2010 was released afterwards...?

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Re: Windows 8 to kill off Adobe Reader?

No, PDF had been an open standard for several year, just look at Apple's Preview, FoxIt Reader, FreePDF, PDF Viewer, they all pre-date Office 2007. I think Adobe just didn't like a major player, with huge market share, taking away business from one of their main revenue streams - printing PDFs from Office.

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Re: Windows 8 to kill off Adobe Reader?

Office 2007 SP2 added the save to PDF function.

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