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We'll have an announcement from the Acrobat team as to how they're going to continue to provide Acrobat-Office integration in Office 2008.

Since they've refused to even consider using AppleScript for this in the past, in spite of the fact that AppleScript would allow them to greatly improve the features of their macros, and the only method the were willing to even consider, VBA, is no longer an option, I'm curious as to when, or if, we'll hear about how they plan on doing this.

Considering the Acrobat team's attitude towards the Mac, even in the face of customer demand, it's even odds that they'll say "Well, it's impossible now", and let it die. Further consideration of the fact that since Acrobat 5, they've added exactly one new feature to the Macros, namely the preservation of Internet URLs, which InDesign was doing in version 2, and this feature was added in Acrobat 8, and is the only difference between using the Macros and hitting the "save as PDF" button in the Office print dialogs...

would anyone even notice?

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Comments

Not me. I moved on from Acrobat a while ago - terrible pricing, lousy support for Mac users, and a bloated application. Woo needs that? PDF Pen Pro meets my editing and annotating needs and Yep handles my tagging, organizing, and search. All at a fraction of the cost of Acrobat.

Of course I've also dropped Office, at least until I see whether there's anything in the 2008 version that merits a return. Right now, iWork 08 and the built-in OS X apps are serving me well.

Both of these companies better step up or I think they'll increasingly find themselves less relevant (or completely irrelevant) for an increasing number of users.

Posted by: Marc Orchant | November 16, 2007 10:01 AM

it wasn't until I started reading this blog that I realized how simliarly diarrheal Acrobat Pro and Word felt in my daily use as a book designer. Equal quantities of hatred for end-users like me, perpetrated by engineers who despise anyone who doesn't live within the command-line.

My thanks to Sir Bynkii for opening my eyes. A latter-day Harlan Ellison, you are.

Posted by: Maurice Kessler | November 16, 2007 7:20 PM

Maurice, if I could ever come within the same universe as the level of writing Harlan Ellison does on a daily basis, I could die a happy man, but thank you very much for the compliment.

Posted by: John C. Welch | November 17, 2007 8:14 PM