It’s official. Microsoft’s Chris_Pratley reports:
Steven Sinofsky announced during his wrap-up Q&A this morning that Office 12 apps (OneNote included) will support “Save as PDF” natively.
Excellent! This upgrade is sounding better and better all the time. I got my invitation to join the beta program the other day, and I’m really looking forward to it.
Ed Bott 
Yawn. In a year, it’ll almost be competitive with WordPerfect, which offers PDF support now (and has for 2 versions). Zzzzzzz. Wake me when it’s over.
Just re-read the above post. Hey, I sound like a snide Mac user. Cool!
Um, Dwight? Office is a lot more than Word. And WordPerfect is a lot less than Office.
The ability to output Access reports in PDF format is cool, and is a little out of WordPerfect’s scope. Ditto for Excel charts and PowerPoint presentations.
Actually, all the WordPerfect Office components — spreadsheet, presentation, database, etc. — output to PDF, and have for a long time. The correct response to Office 12 doing PDF is, “What the foo took you so long, MS?”, not “Gee, I can’t wait for this feature!” If you can’t wait, you should be using WordPerfect now. Because you’ll wait a almost a year more for it if you hang back for Office 12.
And if you don’t want to spring for WP, you can always download version 2.0 of OpenOffice.org, which ALSO saves as PDF. For free.
Office 12 looks like it’ll be pretty nifty, but for PDF? Nah.
Dwight, I’ve tried WordPerfect. I’ve tried OpenOffice. For a variety of reasons, they don’t work for me. And sorry, the other components of the WordPerfect suite are pretty weak.
Glad you found a program you like. But for someone who has chosen Office, the addition of this feature is actually news.
Dwight, I didn’t know that Corel still developed Paradox?
Andre, you get Paradox if you buy WordPerfect Office 12 Professional. But it looks like only WP, Quattro, and Presentations have been updated for version 12.