This can't serious, can it?

Someone asked a very simple question, how could I produce a PDF document from my Word document and this was one of the answers:

in the office, why not just print the word document and then using the printer, scan it and email the document to yourself, the default format is PDF.

I am not sure if the person is offering this in jest or what but I can tell you that this person is involved with technology at a senior position. That is scary.