Official Microsoft Office PDF Plugin

Posted by Martin in Operating Systems, Windows, software  Tags: , , , , ,

24

Feb



There are several third party applications that make it possible to create PDF documents from within Microsoft Office. Most of these add a virtual printer that converts the Microsoft Office document to PDF. There is however an official way to add PDF - and XPS - support to Microsoft Office 2007 and its various programs like Microsoft Office Word 2007, Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007.

Microsoft is offering a plugin on their homepage that adds pdf support to Office 2007 adding PDF as one of the options in the Save As dialog. That’s probably the most effective way to add support for PDF documents to Microsoft Office 2007.

The plugin can only be downloaded if you have a genuine Microsoft Office 2007. The check will be made before the download link for the plugin becomes available.


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Microsoft PDF Plugin for Office 2007 says:

[...] This plugin is supported in Windows server 2003, Vista and XP SP2. The plugin works with Microsoft Office Access 2007, Microsoft Office Access 2007, Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007, Microsoft Office OneNote 2007, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, Microsoft Office Publisher 2007, Microsoft Office Visio 2007 and Microsoft Office Word 2007. Via gHacks [...]

Experiences Using Microsoft’s Plugin to Convert Office 2007 Documents to PDF | Tech[niques] says:

[...] over at gHacks recently posted about Microsoft’s Office 2007 plugin that saves documents as PDF: Microsoft is offering a plugin on their homepage that adds pdf support to Office 2007 adding PDF [...]

Jawwad says:

Martin: but I still think that third-party PDF printers are a better bet because this way you have support of PDF from ANY application with printing support, not just MS Office. However if there is any feature or something extra that is present in this plugin offered by Microsoft that I am missing(as I have not used this plugin so far)?

Martin says:

Jawwad the main difference is the Create bookmarks using option which creates links in the PDF.

gnome says:

Finally, though I don’t think I’ll be using it… Still, nice to know Microsoft cares enough to bother…

Dante says:

I’ve tried this last year already. And it sucks!!! PDF does not come out properly if you have intricate formating and embedded spreadsheets.

ola dimeji says:

i don’t know why this is just coming up here. this plugin has been available since 2006! i was expecting some cutting-edge product.

hp says:

Just wanted to suggest “CutePDF” - free for personal use. and works in any program from where you can print. This installs as a Printer driver.

good luck

Martin says:

do you think it is less worthy to be mentioned because it is old ?

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