OneNote needs ability to save as an IMAGE!!!!

[tablet 4]

Using OneNote is often useless and counter-productive being that the options
for saving/exporting my notes are so very limited. It dDoesn't support any
image formats, most notably TIFF, PDF, JPEG etc etc.
Converting handwriting to text is still very problematic (especially when
symbols and arrows are drawn) and thus not a valid method for sharing OneNote
information. Exporting into an image allows quick scaling, incorporation into
other software (page and publishing layout programs for example), or just a
quick email of notes to someone (and NO, not everyone has nor wants Outlook).
Why does this process have to be SO arduous?!?


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[Patrick Schmid]

PDF is actually not an image format.
However...OneNote 2007 can now export a page to PDF. As it looks though
(due to a legal struggle with Adobe), this feature won't be in the
product, but you'll be able to download it separately for free.

Patrick Schmid

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

Aloha tablet,

Patrick already covered the PDF issue. Let me comment that if you e-mail
your notes they get sent as an HTML message which can be read by any e-mail
software that renders HTML message (which is pretty much all modern e-mail
software). It does not require Outlook.

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr - MVP
http://www.rolandschorr.com
Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenotefaq.htm

 

[John Waller]

PDF is actually not an image format.

However...OneNote 2007 can now export a page to PDF. As it looks though
(due to a legal struggle with Adobe), this feature won't be in the
product, but you'll be able to download it separately for free.

I thought PDF was an open standard? What objection does Adobe have?

Save As PDF will be in the rest of the Office suite, won't it?

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

Aloha John,

Adobe is apparently threatening litigation against Microsoft if they include
Save to PDF in Office 2007 so as of the moment it looks like Office 2007
will ship WITHOUT Save As PDF built into the product. That's the whole Office
suite.

But apparently the plan is to make it available as a download - a "powertoy"
of sorts.

This doesn't make much sense to me as both Corel's WordPerfect suite and
OpenOffice allow save as PDF natively. I guess we'll see how it all shakes
out.


-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr - MVP
http://www.rolandschorr.com
Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenotefaq.htm

 

[John Waller]

Adobe is apparently threatening litigation against Microsoft if they

include Save to PDF in Office 2007 so as of the moment it looks like
Office 2007 will ship WITHOUT Save As PDF built into the product. That's
the whole Office suite.

On what basis? I thought PDF was an open standard.
Any links to more news on this ridiculous stance by Adobe?

But apparently the plan is to make it available as a download - a
"powertoy" of sorts.

Hope it happens

This doesn't make much sense to me as both Corel's WordPerfect suite and
OpenOffice allow save as PDF natively. I guess we'll see how it all
shakes out.

Nor to me. There are so many PDF creation products on the market.
Well Adobe has been to court before and lost.

 

[John Waller]

Any links to more news on this ridiculous stance by Adobe?

Scratch that, Ben. I see it's all over the web.

 

[Patrick Schmid]

The format is open, but Adobe is threatening anti-trust litigation in
Europe. Anti-trust stuff is completely separate from whether a format is
open or not.

Patrick Schmid

 

[John Waller]

The format is open, but Adobe is threatening anti-trust litigation in

Europe. Anti-trust stuff is completely separate from whether a format is
open or not.

Thanks Patrick.

As far as I can tell, it seems to be coming on the back of the ongoing
European anti-trust issues that MS is currently embroiled in. It "shouldn't"
affect the US/Worldwide (non-European) release of Office but Microsoft's not
taking the chance of more delays to its product cycle so it's relented on
including PDF creation as a native feature for the time being (I presume).

Basically time is against Microsoft - a fact which Adobe is exploiting.
Clever strategy by Adobe. It's bought itself some time but the PDF issue
won't be going away either.

 

[Patrick Schmid]

John,

Yes exactly that's what they are doing. I personally think Adobe made a
huge mistake, as this is going to make people think twice whether PDF is
the archival/interchange format or not.

Patrick Schmid