{"id":175,"date":"2005-10-05T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-05T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2005\/10\/office-12-pdf-support.htm"},"modified":"2007-06-11T21:31:47","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T20:31:47","slug":"office-12-pdf-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/10\/office-12-pdf-support.htm","title":{"rendered":"Office 12 PDF support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--112851227985096651-->I just read on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.conchango.com\/stuartpreston\/archive\/2005\/10\/04\/2236.aspx\">Stuart Preston&#8217;s blog<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/brian_jones\/archive\/2005\/10\/01\/476067.aspx\">Microsoft will support the portable document format (PDF) natively in Office 12<\/a>.  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