There is a lot of fuss about Adobe blocking Microsoft’s plans to incorporate “save to PDF” functionality in Office 2007.
Much Ado About Nothing.
Legally Adobe owns the PDF format, but it has long been openly available.
A little known fact: the first company breaking Adobe’s monopoly may have been Intuit, introducing TurboTax print-to-pdf years ago. I’m sure they had a deal for that with Adobe, but I doubt they considered the fact that the PDF driver remains on one’s computer years after Turbotax has been uninstalled, and is quite accessible to any other programs. But that’s history now.
Today any Mac OSX user can save to PDF, OpenOffice creates PDF formats, Zoho Writer (which I recently featured), Writely both do it. And if you’re still stuck in Microsoft-prison, 
there are a number of free PDF-creators, including my favorite Paperless Printer which can convert almost any application data to PDF, HTML, DOC, Excel, JPEG or BMP including those created with drawing, page-layout, or image-editing programs.
Adobe, it’s gone, let go of it! Be happy to have become the standard, which allows you to charge for extra functionality. End of story.
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Adobe has spoken to me about this. They are deeply concerned the inclusion of PDF conversion tools by MSFT in MSFT core systems will erode their franchise.
I’d be a lot happier to see them big up Flex.
I agree: it is much ado about nothing. Microsoft can legitimately point to all the competing vendors supporting PDF to argue that the market expects them to. It would be tough for Adobe to win this case, either in the legal arena or in the court of public opinion.
Sridhar
As a company that uses a mix of Adobe products and open-source PDF products, we can say that this is no big deal. If you want to create sophisticated PDF docs, and work with many types of PDF forms, as just two examples, you need Adobe, period, and Adobe profits nicely off this. Also when you need it to 100% work – you need Adobe. MacOSX PDFs, for example, often create problems with complicated documents – rendering them unreadable on PDF readers.
MSFT shouldn’t be much more of a threat than any of the cheap/open source stuff out there. It probably will lead to more Adobe sales – perhaps less of Elements, but more of all the rest.
this is a good pdf converter tool
http://www.sharewarecheap.com/business-finance-word-processing/abc-amber-pdf2image-converter9585-23.htm