Amid threats of a lawsuit from Adobe, Microsoft acknowledged Friday that it would remove support for saving files in PDF from Office 2007.
Solution. Use the free version of PrimoPDF. With it, you can print to a PDF, which gives near-identical functionality.
So, I’m baffled. With such technology freely available, what is Adobe trying to accomplish?
Solution. Use a Mac, where Print to PDF is an operating system function that is consequently functional in every single program.
My new computer will probably be a Mac. I like the new notebooks, but they seem to run hot and I’m seeing bloggers talk about system failures. So, I’ll wait a few months unttil they get the bugs out.
As someone who frequently writes (and is clearly concerned) about security issues on Windows machines, you might find this column by San Jose Mercury News columnist Mike Langberg interesting (it’s favorable to MS, by the way). Here’s the start: