It is not that easy to save a PDF to Microsoft SharePoint using out-of-the-box Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat. And yet PDFs are important to a lot of organizations and more and more organizations are looking to use SharePoint as their document management platform. There needs to be a better way, which is just what we at MacroView have provided with our MacroView PDF SharePoint Save plug-in for Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat.

Installing MacroView PDF SharePoint Save adds a 'Save to SharePoint' item to the File menu of Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat. It also adds a custom 'Save to SharePoint' button to the Adobe Reader toolbar, which is convenient when you have opened a PDF from a website, and so Adobe Reader is running inside your web browser.

When you click 'Save to SharePoint' you get an intuitive tree-view display of your SharePoint environment, so that you can easily choose the document library where you want to save the PDF.

The tree-view respects SharePoint security, so you only see those sites and document libraries for which you have at least Contributor permission. The tree-view initially locates the document library that you used most recently (which is nice). The tree-view display provides a number of ways that make it quick to navigate a large SharePoint environment and find the site and library that you want.

Once you choose a document library and click OK you are then prompted for any meta-data that is defined in that document library. The plug-in supports multiple Content Types and all the column types available in SharePoint 2007 (including Business Data columns if you have the MOSS Enterprise license).

MacroView PDF SharePoint Save is a great way to save those PDFs that have been sent to you by a Smart Photocopier, as an attachment to an email message.

MacroView PDF SharePoint Save makes working with Microsoft SharePoint as easy as using Windows Explorer, with the added advantage of capturing meta-data that enables more flexible searching.