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Hmm...it's over a month now since Office 2008, and still not even an announcement from Adobe regarding Office 2008 integration with Acrobat.

I know, I know, we all know what the answer's going to be, assuming the Acrobat team gives us the basic courtesy of an answer. Some vague bullshit about how without VBA, it can't be done with some even lamer blathering about workarounds, probably requiring InDesign.

Of course, if the Acrobat team would stop insisting that only VBA is the answer, then they could have been improving this integration since 2004. (Word's dictionary was kind of broke-dick prior to that, so Adobe did have a point about limitations prior to that. That's not saying that no improvement from Acrobat 5 until the release of Acrobat 8 was justified, just that they were rather limited in what they could have done.)

But, that would require the Acrobat team to change their EVERYONE MUST USE WINDOWS worldview, and we all know they've smoked too much of that crack to stop now. Addiction is indeed, a terrible thing. One might think the Acrobat team wants PDFKit to fully support the current PDF standard, so they can just dump any support for the Mac beyond PDF altogether.

I'm not sure why, it's not like they spend a lot of money making Acrobat a particularly good Mac application. Lord knows, the entire marketing savings won't even buy a cup of coffee at Dunkin' Donuts.

Of course, they could always surprise me, and do the right thing for their Mac users, and start making Acrobat Mac something better than a "Here, now STFU" application.

Right, and monkeys might fly out of my butt.

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