On 11/28/2011 3:12 PM, Edward Bernard wrote: <speaking of 3d PDF and Adobe announcing it would be dropped from Adobe Acrobat X>
> Wow! That is way cool. I had no idea the 3d feature would do sections. But > why in the world would Adobe drop such a great feature? > My guess, hardly anyone uses it in PDF exchanges and Adobe decided it didn't want it hanging around to create legacy-support issues. I remember the architecture/engineering/construction sector getting excited about it when first announced. Bentley quickly built it into its Microstation CAD products to support the exchange of "browsable" 3D models in construction documents. Back in my days at NIST, we created one of the first tool chains to take advantage of Adobe's beta-release in order to take reference data sets we were creating to test AEC CAD data exchange and embed viewable 3D models (e.g., u3d) represented by the data sets into supporting documentation. This in addition to the VRML/x3d models we were already creating and which the community didn't like (we never overcame the problem of poor browser support of VRML after Silicon Graphics went belly up). A quick search in Google on '3d pdf' suggests that it never went much farther. Yet Another Episode in the ongoing soap opera called "The tyranny of the marketplace." Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
