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Originally Posted by HamsterRage
That reminds me of something I once saw happen in our office. An admin assistant printed a report, took the printed output to the scanner and scanned it, threw out the paper and converted the scanned input into a PDF.
At the time we had the technology (and we were already doing this all around the company) to simply produce the report in PDF and email it to the user, skipping the paper altogether. It just never occured to her, or anyone else involved in the process, to ask us to change the report over to PDF.
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When was this?
There are both a free add-on from MS and several third party efforts that can generate PDFs of Office documents. I wondered why MS didn't simply include the add-on with Office instead of requiring the user to go download it from them after the fact. The answer is apparently that if they included it with Office, they'd have to pay Adobe royalties. As a separately available download, they don't...
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Dennis