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Software Review: Adobe Technical Communication Suite - Adobe Acrobat 8 3D

Written by T. Michael Testi
Published May 06, 2008
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• Generate assembly instructions – to produce quality technical documentation and communicate more effectively to anyone using the free reader.

• Create PDF files including 3D designs from Microsoft Office Documents – which allow you to easily insert 3D CAD designs into existing and new Office Documents and then convert them to PDF for easy distribution.

Adobe Acrobat 8 3D – View PDFIt is quite apparent that Adobe Acrobat 8 3D has had a lot of engineering work done to it, especially with regard to PRC and the massive file conversion capabilities. They are also putting a firm foot down within the engineering market.

I found that Adobe Acrobat 8 3D is a really exciting product to work with and the effect it can have on manufacture and design is enormous. When Acrobat started out it was a product that reproduced documents for easy transport. It has now grown to a product that promotes interactivity. Working with Adobe Acrobat 8 3D I see enormous potential as it sits right now, but also for the future. The way it works with the CAD documents, with interactivity, with RoboHelp, Captivate, and FrameMaker, as well as with all of the other Adobe products, and even products from other manufacturers, makes Acrobat a key linchpin product.

It is easy to mistake Adobe Acrobat as just a simple document transport utility, but that would be like placing focus on the train and forgetting that the train is nothing without the rails. Adobe Acrobat 8 3D, like the rest of the Acrobat family, is the support that links not only the Adobe family together, but many other products and people that rely on that transport to get the job done.

If you have the need to move your 3D images through your company, across town, or around the world, Adobe Acrobat 8 3D comes highly recommended as your transportation system.

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T. Michael Testi is a photographer, writer, software developer and ardent fan of fantasy football and horse race handicapping. He also blogs at PhotographyTodayNet and at All This and Everything Else.
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Software Review: Adobe Technical Communication Suite - Adobe Acrobat 8 3D
Published: May 06, 2008
Type: Review
Section: Sci/Tech
Filed Under: Sci/Tech: Software, Sci/Tech: Computers
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Writer: T. Michael Testi
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