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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
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 |
Well, this was a report coming from a back-end system, not from any MS Office or desktop application.
So it took work for us to figure out how to create PDF's on our Unix server where the legacy application was running and then send them to the user. Not that it was difficult, just something that had to be retrofitted. We use a nifty piece of software called PCL2PDF that does a very nice job of taking printer-ready output using PCL5 and turning that into PDF files.
But that's not really the point of the story. The admin never questioned the sanity of taking the paper, still warm from the printer, running it through the scanner and then shredding it! Even though she had to know that we were sending PDF reports all around the office (probably even to her).