Adobe Solutions for Manufacturing

Without doubt the customer request we have heard the most since launching Acrobat 3D version 7 three years ago has been, "Acrobat 3D looks great, but can I convert my CAD files to PDF on a server integrated with my PLM system??" Well I am truly escstatic to finally be able to say, "YES! You can!"....

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Adobe announced Acrobat 9 early last week while I was at the PTC World Conference and many of the people I talked with last week expressed interest in trying out Acrobat 9 Pro Extended (which is the new name for Acrobat 3D). We will be offering a free 30 day trial for Acrobat 9 Pro Extended, but it isn't ready quite yet. If you would like to be notified when the free trial is posted ...

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Adobe announced Acrobat 9 and the new Acrobat.com service very early this morning. These are both game changing releases for us and I will blog more about the specific benefits for manufacturing companies in the next few days (and after the PTC User Conference ends.) For now, you might want to check out some early blog posts like these ...

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If you are subscribed to this blog via an RSS reader, I would like to apologize for all the updates to the entries today. I recently replaced my PC and resulting ripple of software updates continues to move through my entire workflow process. I had to install new versions of all the applications I use, including Adobe's Contribute CS 3 for editing this blog, and just noticed that the commenting feature was not activated for blog entries. And so now it is... So, you shouldn't see so many of these updates to the same articles going forward.

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During the panel discussions on 'Proprietary lightweight 3D formats and standards: A collision course?" at the 2008 CIC Conf that Longview Advisors hosted earlier this month in Denver many of the audience's questions and the resulting discussion touched on 'what really is a lightweight 3D format for and when should you use it?' In thinking about it and talking with some of the other folks on the panel, it occured to me that it would be useful to look back at why the lightweight formats were introduced in the first place and how the external constraints driving the requirements for 'lightweight' have changed over time.

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