QuoteMicrosoft and Adobe appear to be headed for court after talks to include PDF support in Office 2007 broke down, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The dispute has been brewing for the past four months, Microsofts lead counsel Brad Smith disclosed.

Smith said Adobe threatened to sue in Europe, and that the company was preparing for that eventuality. Adobe wants the feature removed and offered separately, which Microsoft has done. However, it also wants Microsoft to charge for it, which the Redmond company refuses to do.

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Quote from: wikipediaPDF is also an open standard in the sense that anyone may create applications that read and write PDF files without having to pay royalties to Adobe Systems.

Adobes angle is pretty weak, unless they play the monopoly card.

Does this mean there are other PDF readers?

Yes there are I have  plug in for Total Commander that reads PDF.

Open Office read and writes PDF I belive.

Quote from: DeltaZeroDoes this mean there are other PDF readers?

Yes, loads of them. The main thing with this though is that if they force M$ to do what they want they then might do the same to everyone else.

FFS its one thing stopping a company using your products but forcing them to use it is a bit OTT. TBH i dont much like both companies but i hope Adobe fall on their arse here.

I like to use foxit PDF, as its not a bloater like Adobes is

I use a mac and just press print screen or print  voila pdfs

Quote from: soopahflyI like to use foxit PDF, as its not a bloater like Adobes is

Just had a look at this - cheers for the tip looks good.

they should have thought about the possibility of people they dont like using it before they made it an open standard TBH.