Is a pdf part of Windows Office?

[patio]

 

[ImnoGuru]

OOPS Sorry!

[ImnoGuru]

Thanks rob, All fixed now. I went in and made a modification to my post. Sorry patio.

[neelchauhan]

PDF isn't part of Microsoft Office.
If you want to make PDF files in office, you can buy Adobe Writer, or download CutePDF for free at http://www.cutepdf.com. If you download CutePDF, newer versions are needed as older ones contain Spyware.

[soybean]

PDF isn't part of Microsoft Office.

It is part of Office 2007. 

If you want to make PDF files in office, you can buy Adobe Writer, or download CutePDF for free at http://www.cutepdf.com. If you download CutePDF, newer versions are needed as older ones contain Spyware.

Do you have proof of that? There are numerous other freeware PDF creators/convertors, such as PrimoPDF, pdf995, etc. Also, I suspect the spyware you mentioned is due to the download source, not the version of CutePDF.  But, again, if the user has Office 2007, PDF is built-in.

[cyrusrynlee]

PDF format is not natively supported by MSO 2007 but you can download a PDF reader/viewer for free - adobe reader is the most common PDF reader in our locality. If you want to save your document files in PDF you can download a microsoft addin for MSO 2007 for free - visit http://www.microsoft.com or the official MSO site for more details.

[billrich]

ImnoGuru,

Adobe  PDF  reader is not bloat. New computers have enough RAM and HDD space.   

Why settle for a VW when you can have a Mercedes free?

[patio]

With all respect i wholeheartedly disagree with the above...Adobe Reader is nothing but bloat.

[soybean]

PDF format is not natively supported by MSO 2007...

Yes, it is.  PDF is an option when using the Save As command in Word 2007, Excel 2007, etc.

[ImnoGuru]

Hmmm seems some like it some dont....

Guess its going to get down to, using it and deciding for ones self.

Its so difficult to decide, when we are encapsulated by microsoft at every turn.

I guess people just go with the flow and get office because the bloke down the road has it, and everybody else has it, so I may as well too.

Humans are such creatures of habit. Sad really.  

[soybean]

ImnoGuru, if OpenOffice.org would be sufficient for your needs for an office suite and you really have no compelling need for MS Office, then why buy MS Office?  With one of the freeware PDF converters mentioned in this thread or ones that weren't mentioned here, you can have the capability to "print" to PDF from any application on your computer.

I had my reasons for getting MS Office.  I also got it at a substantially lower price at a college bookstore, legally.

I also have MS Office 2003 on my Win XP desktop.  I have PrimoPDF installed on that computer and can convert any Word file to PDF, using PrimoPDF. 

[ImnoGuru]

soybean, thanks for your post.
The way my WGA is going at the moment I might have to delete the lot and use open office in its place.
Maybe if we all, eg the world, changed over Bill might rethink his WGA.

[2x3i5x]

if you have microsoft office 2007, you can save your work as pdf files (at least I know you can save the documents you created in word 2007 as pdf format)

[BC_Programmer]

ImnoGuru,

Adobe  PDF  reader is not bloat. New computers have enough RAM and HDD space.   

Why settle for a VW when you can have a Mercedes free?

hahahahaha...

that is a terrible analogy, unless we add that both are free, the mercedes top speed is 40 km/h, and it takes 40 minutes to become drivable when you start it. that and it doesn't fit in your garage and insists on starting up in the middle of the night or when your busy doing other things, threatening to fill your baby's room with carbom monoxide during the night, and it becomes clear that a vw is a bit safer, more reliable, and all-around less of a bother.

[billrich]

hahahahaha...

that is a terrible analogy, unless we add that both are free, the mercedes top speed is 40 km/h, and it takes 40 minutes to become drivable when you start it. that and it doesn't fit in your garage and insists on starting up in the middle of the night or when your busy doing other things, threatening to fill your baby's room with carbom monoxide during the night, and it becomes clear that a vw is a bit safer, more reliable, and all-around less of a bother.

Where does BC  get such nonsense?  VW is safer than a Mercedes?  Mecedes top speed is 40 km.hr?
 
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Performance
Max speed 207.08 miles/h (334 km/h)
0-100 km/h 3.7 seconds
0-160 km/h 7.42 seconds
0-200 km/h 10.91 seconds
0-300 km/h 31.91 seconds
Quarter mile 11.6 seconds

 
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