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Acrobat 3D version 8 was announced September 18, 2006 along with the entire Acrobat 8 Product family and includes a lot of very exciting features for manufacturing companies. So what are they?
The major enhancements in Acrobat 3D Version 8 include:
- Viewing of Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) entities extracted from the major proprietary CAD formats
- Encapsulation of Exact 3D Geometry in PDF
- Enhanced Compression of 3D geometry stored in PDF
- Export of Precise Geometry to standard neutral file formats
As Acrobat 3D is a superset of Acrobat Professional, it includes all of the new features included in Acrobat 8 along with several 3D specific features and enhancements. While there are quite a few new features in Acrobat 8 Professional, there are a subset that will likely be of interest to manufacturers. These include:
- DWG PDF Maker
- PDF Packages
- Reader Enablement of digital signatures and saving form field data
- Shared Reviews
Forms: Form field auto-recognition and improved form distribution and tracking
For more detailed information on the new features of Acrobat 3D version 8, please see the following link: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat3d/