Microsoft to support PDF in Office 12
Microsoft Office 12 will enable people to publish documents in the Adobe PDF format
Brian Jones, a program manager for Microsoft Office, said that Office 12 will let end users take an Office document and convert it to PDF format, People will not be able to actually read PDF files from within Office applications; a PDF viewer will still be required. Microsoft Office 12 is expected to ship to be completed by the second half of 2006.
Brian said that sharing documents across multiple platforms and long-term archiving are very important.
Even as Microsoft adds PDF support, the company is working on a document format, called Metro, that offers many of the same features as PDF. Metro will be delivered in late 2006 with Windows Vista.
Metro is designed to enable people to view Office documents without needing Office applications. The format also uses the graphics engine in Windows Vista to have a consistent way of displaying data on a screen and sending document data to printers, according to Microsoft.
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