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WHAT IS DS'S PLAN FOR SUPPORTING 3DVIA COMPOSER OUTPUT VIEWING USING ACROBAT READER (PDF FORMAT) WITHOUT THE USE OF SPECIAL PLUG-INS?

MANY GOVERNMENT AND LARGE INSTALLATIONS CANNOT ADD NEW APPLICATIONS TO THEIR DESKTOP ENVIRONMENTS, AND PDF IS SOON TO BE AN ISO STANDARD, AS OPPOSED TO BEING OWNED BY A COMPANY (ADOBE).

It’s actually quite easy to publish to directly PDF directly from 3DVIA Composer. With its support for reading and writing to the U3D format, 3DVIA Composer can publish to Acrobat Reader 7.0 or greater without any plug-ins. The default template includes basic views, annotations, BOM tables, etc., and allows you to fully rotate/pan/zoom the model in 3D. Using Adobe Acrobat, PDF templates can also be adapted to deliver custom formatted PDFs.

It is good to point out that, when you use Composer to add interactivity and information into the 3D data, the U3D data format is not robust enough to manage this additional Composer-generated content, and is quite limited in its ability to deliver interactive content.

So, to enhance the Adobe Reader capabilities with better information, better interactivity, and better performance we offer a free plug-in on 3dviacomposer.com to enhance the capabilities of PDF through the 3DVIA Composer Player.