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- floppyparty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+39Seriously!
When I open a pdf by accident, I tend to wince like I'm suffering from excruciating pain. - ArcticCelt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33Because adobe pdf software is not enough bloated and painfully slow. (ok they improved a bit in the last versions but still...)
- realyst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17I agree. The last thing I need is Acrobat to take up 900 megs of memory instead of 700 megs. It even borderline locks my PC up for a few seconds when I close acrobat when loaded in browser. Yet Foxit closes immediately...fancy that.
Although the 3d thing takes up less memory then I figured it would. - Scatropolis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Doesn't work with Foxit....not that I really was expecting it to.
- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14That has to be the weirdest spelling of 'Kudos' I have ever seen..
- tekz0r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Standard paper definitely can not do that.
- ocauTMM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13cool, but unsurprisingly slow - and it only works with adobe's reader, which is the worst PDF reader!
- anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13You're mirroring a file that's hosted on Adobe? Somehow, I don't think it's going to down any time soon. :p
- allanpat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11this is interesting in it's potential for companies to create interactive owners manuals. with that said, adobe couldn't have used some better designers for their pdf sample?? what's up with those ***** drop shadows behind the links?
- acff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9ah, it's the dreaded "oh crap that file is PDF" feeling
i've become classically conditioned to get up and use the bathroom when i click on PDFs - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10No.
- Avisto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Meh, doesn't work in Foxit PDF Reader.
- chaosmachine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7great, one more thing to lock up my browser.
- blackjack75, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Yes, standard paper can do that. Don't you get origami models with your manuals these days?
- anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Fire Fox 2 Like
Sounds like an interesting application. - mattyxo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8You know what, I bet someone met you 5 years ago. And I bet you met someone recently. Someone new. Do you think the person that met you 5 years ago looks at the new person and goes, "What the ***** is wrong with you? I met this guy 5 years ago - OLD NEWS"
I bet they don't. And I bet a lot of people haven't seen this before. I haven't. ***** off - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8this has been out for almost a year.. hasn't it?
i made a 3D model for a competition a while back:
http://www.studica.com/skills/vote_detail.cfm?rid=645&competitionid=4 - russau, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4yeah... u'd think adobe would do something about their product when there there "warning PDF link" messages all over the net!
- GeorgePBurdell, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9Worked great on my system...maybe you should upgrade.
- realyst, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Standard paper can be wrapped around an actual prototype. Equally, one does not need batteries and an OpenGL card to read standard paper. Nor is standard paper 1.0 any less likely to be readable by human eyes 50 years from now when we're reading....standard paper 1.0. Just saying.
- thecosas, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7doesn't anyone else use foxit reader? it's literally a second or two to open your average pdf.
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/ - Haroldx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Doesn't work in evince, either...
Didn't think so anyways. - newaffect, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Acrobat 3D is really old.
- Monoboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Something I don't like about this is from my understanding the PDF format is supposed to be good for imaged paper and for printing thus documents.
This should be done in a different format, or at least be a different default extension. - stevenyoung, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8what is this scam? go to rapidshare to pay for a free download? this is not a mirror. you make me wish karma was real. adobe.com is not going anywhere anytime soon. your message is pay for play and this exploitation sucks. who are you? go away!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Good for you. The point is, we shouldn't have to have top of the line rigs to view a freakin product manual. My system is good enough to run Oblivion/FEAR/HL2 on max settings, but PDF files make it choke. See the problem here? Yeah, me too.
- pixelperfect, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Apple's implementation probably purposely avoided this 'feature'.
This is probably one of the reasons why Adobe's own reader uses so much RAM. - ToastPop, on 04/17/2009, -1/+4Makes my Foxit Reader crash when I try to click the buttons :(
- lowbot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The biggest problem is that Adobe is ruining the idea behind what a PDF is supposed to be for their own profit. PDF is supposed to be portable digital paper. What you see is what you get. Its a static piece of e-paper.
Adobe knows the only way to to continue their business is to add in bloaty features, mostly asked for by users too clueless to know better tools exist for their needs. Like forms in PDFs. (use a wordproccessor or a html page), embedded animations (use html or flash), etc.
Now people associate PDFs as things that crash their browsers. Shame really. - mofotronimus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2it seemed to work really well on my computer... i was actually quite impressed, but i guess if so many other people are having issues, then there are still some major bugs to work out. anyone know how far along in development this is?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2a year... a couple months..... who's counting really?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Now if we can only make acrobat not include the yahoo tool bar, we would be getting somewhere, and no, i dont need an acrobat updater running everytime i start it cough *foxit* is the way to go
- xamox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Okay so PDF is an acroynm for Printable Document Format. Can't really print in 3D now, can we?
- JoeB4ever, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Combining pdf with CAD
I like it - garyinthehouse, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5does this work with OS X's Preview?
- Tropicalpalmdoc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Looks about the same as the internet ad with the 360 degree view I used when I sold my house in Florida four years ago . . .
- PabloIV, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I don't like the level of time PDFs take to load; but having a universally standard 3D format that's easy to transfer is useful to no end. Qoodos to Adobe
- cjhowe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Improved just a bit? I used to be a Foxit fan boy, but Adobe has caught up on speed. It may still be a bloated application on disk, but not at runtime. Why give up feature/printing compatibility just so you can think you're in the know?
- 15charmaxwtf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow! Great! Now I don't have to buy things to copy them :P
- inotocracy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thats pretty bad ass! I'm still trying to figure out what kind of user manuals could actually use this technology effectively (other than CAD of course)...
- Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1why dont they just combine the flash and pdf formats together
flash has much better loading time and creating a flash pdf viewer would realy be a great feature - crckr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3pdf.properties says: last modification of the doc was at Wed 08 Feb 2006 12:20:51 CET
- joe90210, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5runs like *****
- artman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2For people collaborating with 3D, this is great. But I have removed Adobe Acrobat and Reader off my Windows XP PC at work. I had too many issues to explain here. I substituted it with a free reader. I do print work, so I've installed Acrobat onto another Windows PC for creating PDFs.
- crckr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2if only I had a fax/printer that could interpret a standardized origami folding language :)
- neovive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is nice for CAD users, but everyday PDF's are already slow enough without spinning logos! I hope they finish the Foxit Firefox plugin soon!
- MySchizoBuddy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1pixel perfect. this 3d feature is a new feature and only Acrobat reader can display them. No other pdf reader can display them either. this 3d feature is not part of the pdf standards either. Its proprietary feature only available in Adobe reader.
It has nothing to do with Apples implementation. Stop hating. - starrd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1PDF is a great way to distribute print materials that have augmented bits of information using video, audio, and apparantly 3D. Nothing wrong with that. Keeps it all contained in one document and there absolutely good applications for this. Thanks for sharing, I didn't know!
- keanxsoul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It actually pretty cool to have this kind of feature in a PDF document... but there might be some printing inconvenience... even though it is not much, also it seems that the file size is much bigger than a normal PDF document... so, with that one 3D simulation in a file it has become as big as 3MB what would it be if people begin publishing... molecular physics simulation on 1000 pages books :), this could possibly cause problems too... but people from adobe must already have though about that, huh... hope that i will begin to have a "swimming lesson" PDF document where i can actually see a simulation of how i should move... (just an example of what kind of book can be published using this technology)
- keanxsoul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hehe, sorry to bug, but PDF stand for Portable Document Format and not "Printable" so it does not defy the name PDF :)
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