PDF Printing Capabilities for NW2004s - Bex Analyzer (MSExcel)

Hi,
the new NW2004s-Bex Web frontend offers the pdf-printing capabilites.
Will this functionality be offered for the NW2004s-Bex Analyzer (MS Excel) Frontend tool as well and does anyone know when?
Thanks
Christian

I don't think it will ever be used with Excel, except you have a local installation of Adobe Distiller (? the adobe printer creating .pdf-files ?). To me it doesn't makes sense because in Excel you can print as you like. Nevertheless you can jump to the BEx Broadcaster or Web Analayzer. There you can use pdf-printing.
Best regards,
Leo

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