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Create and share high-fidelity PDF files

With Adobe® Acrobat® 9 Pro Extended software, you can deliver rich, effective PDF communications anytime, anywhere. Use Acrobat 9 Pro Extended to:

Create a single, organized, and more secure PDF Portfolio that contains 2D and 3D CAD designs, layers, dimensions, and other documents to increase productivity, reduce errors, and accelerate innovation
Easily distribute 3D designs containing product manufacturing information (PMI) — such as dimensions, tolerances, and annotations — so your extended teams can access the information they need to manufacture the product
Protect and manage your sensitive information by controlling who opens, views, prints, copies, and modifies your files — both inside and outside the firewall
Enable users of free Adobe Reader® software to access product and project information whenever and wherever they need it
Accelerate collaboration by enabling Reader users to interact with designs in 3D — rotating, zooming, cross-sectioning, measuring, and creating 3D markups

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Get the most from your 3D assets

Included with Acrobat 9 Pro Extended is the new Adobe 3D Reviewer. Use it to accelerate design reviews by merging different CAD formats into one assembly; measuring and sectioning on precise geometry; comparing a revised design to an earlier version; and creating exploded views, animations, and balloons. Export your work to a variety of neutral formats, 2D vector/raster files, or PDF.

Acrobat 9 Pro Extended

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Top reasons for engineering
Top reasons for IT professionals
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Top reasons for design and process engineering

Unify the widest range of content New: Easily organize and deliver engineering content from a variety of sources — including 3D designs, 2D drawings, spreadsheets, and more — into a single, searchable PDF Portfolio, compressed for easy distribution. Quickly integrate content, define navigation, and add polish to communicate clearly and effectively.
Convert virtually any CAD file into a PDF document using templates New: Convert designs from major CAD applications to rich, interactive PDF documents by using templates to communicate more clearly and effectively. Add a more professional look to any PDF file, and share your project information with the same consistent look and feel based on company standards.
Reduce the need to create 2D drawings by sharing CAD data containing PMI* Enhanced: Easily distribute 3D designs containing PMI such as dimensions, tolerances, and annotations to your extended manufacturing teams, enabling them to highlight part models or geometry related to specific PMI. Provide access to the critical information needed to manufacture the product, and reduce the need to create or share 2D drawings. PMI views created in native CAD applications are imported into the PDF document as intelligent PMI views.
Easily create PDF documents from OpenGL applications: Instantly capture your CAD designs in PDF with one-button ease from OpenGL-based applications on Microsoft® Windows® and UNIX® systems.
Combine heterogeneous CAD data into one assembly New: Import large CAD assemblies created by different CAD formats into a single, lightweight assembly that enables users to visualize, analyze, and interact with large amounts of product data in real time. Quickly evaluate relationships between parts from different designers by loading just the structure tree and selectively loading model data that is needed to improve productivity and reduce manufacturing costs.
Measure and cross-section on precise geometry New: Generate dynamic cross-sectional views or measurements based on precise CAD model geometry. Call attention to parts or subassemblies so everyone fully understands the design details.
Perform physical properties calculations New: Access critical physical property information on part models or assemblies such as the calculation of bounding box, volume, center of gravity, mass, and surface area to explore more options. Save time and gain more confidence in proposals, design reviews, and material use.
Share critical project data in a single PDF file with anyone Enhanced: Quickly create a more secure PDF document package from multiple source files that include 2D CAD drawings, 3D designs containing PMI, metadata, Microsoft Office documents, and much more. Use PDF, the open standard for more reliable electronic information exchange, as the foundation of the data release process to your customers and suppliers, who can access the information with Adobe Reader.
Enable 3D interrogation and collaboration tools in Adobe Reader Enhanced: Let your extended team fully participate in e-mail- or web-based reviews of PDF documents. The collaboration tools in Adobe Reader version 8 or later enable them to create 3D markups; add callouts; rotate, zoom, measure, and interact with 3D assemblies and individual parts; and save new 3D associated views, cut cross sections, and view internal structures and assembly relationships without CAD applications or CAD viewers.
Export CAD data to neutral file formats for downstream manufacturing processes Enhanced: Conserve funds by eliminating the need to buy expensive CAD translators for each CAD format you work with. Convert virtually any CAD format to a neutral file format such as STEP, IGES, or STL that can be used in CAD, CAM, and CAE applications for downstream processes. Export the entire assembly, or select which part model(s) to convert to neutral file formats.
Insert 3D CAD designs and video into Microsoft Office documents and convert them to PDF Enhanced: Easily insert 3D CAD designs and video files into existing and new Microsoft Office documents, including Word and PowerPoint files, and convert them to PDF for easy distribution.
Repurpose CAD design data to publish richer technical documentation Enhanced: Quickly clean up CAD designs; create balloons and bills of materials; add and modify lighting, materials, or colors; and create exploded views and animations. Then save as PDF files or 2D raster/vector images, creating richer, more interactive technical manuals without an expensive CAD application.
Compare a revised design to an earlier version New: Leverage easy-to-use tools to graphically compare the difference between successive iterations of your CAD designs without a CAD application. Color codes display the differences between unchanged, new, or old geometry. You can even precisely measure or cross-section any of the comparison results.
Generate mold parting lines and quickly analyze draft angles New: Reduce the time it takes to design various types of molds by automating the calculation for core/cavity splitting. Use interactive mold analysis tools that automatically generate parting lines and parting direction. Easily calculate draft angles based on different manufacturing conditions.
Retain control of your native CAD files and protect your sensitive information Enhanced: Share PDF files instead of native CAD files. Apply advanced document controls and security features that enable you to protect your proprietary information. Use password protection to restrict access to documents, or assign permissions to control who can print, save, copy, or modify documents.
Take advantage of all features in Acrobat 9 Pro Extended New: Use all features in Acrobat 9 Pro Extended to create compelling PDF Portfolios that incorporate video and maps. Collaborate through shared reviews, create interactive forms to collect data easily, and protect and control access to sensitive information.; *Product manufacturing information is used to convey information such as geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, annotations, and other specifications directly on the 3D model.

Top reasons for IT professionals

Leverage your existing investment in Acrobat and PDF: Reduce training, implementation, and maintenance costs. Build your engineering processes and workflows on the same trusted technology the rest of your company already uses to share data and information.
Customize and deploy Acrobat Pro Extended and Adobe Reader across the enterprise: Use free Adobe Customization Wizard 9 to take greater control of enterprise-wide deployments of Acrobat 9 and Reader 9. By supporting multiple tasks with well-known tools, IT organizations can dramatically reduce their cost of implementation, training, and maintenance.
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Reduce risk and cost by using an open, industry-standard format: Eliminate the need to manage different visualization file formats. PDF adheres strictly to industry standards such as PDF/A for archiving, PDF/X for publishing, and PDF/E for engineering and enables you to maintain better control of your data.
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Communicate with confidence: Use PDF, one of the world's most trusted technologies, currently in use by more than half a billion people, to make your valuable engineering information available well into the future. Also import all major CAD formats and export STEP, IGES, and STL data.
Enjoy cross-platform support: Share information on multiple platforms. PDF enables partners, customers, and suppliers to view, print, and interact with documents on virtually any platform — including Mac OS X, Windows, UNIX, Linux®, and many mobile systems.
Improve people effectiveness while reducing training costs: Let engineers work with their CAD system of choice and share 3D designs in 3D PDF with users of Adobe Reader, enabling them to view, manipulate, analyze, mark up, and comment on designs without CAD applications or CAD viewers.
Streamline data collection with PDF forms: Use the new Form Wizard to create forms from paper or electronic documents. Scan or convert existing documents to PDF forms that can be filled electronically, helping to ensure that the data you receive is accurate and useful. Use the Tracker to see when forms have been completed and who has completed them. Easily export form data to a spreadsheet for analysis and reporting.
Take advantage of support and maintenance programs: Get the answers you need, when you need them, with Adobe technical support plan offerings.
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Protect information inside and outside the firewall: Increase control over sensitive information, contracts, and electronic documentation across the extended enterprise. Leverage existing identity management systems, and use 256-bit encryption and permissions to restrict who can print, save, copy, or modify a document.
Rights-protect business-critical information at the document level: Combine Acrobat Pro Extended with Adobe LiveCycle® Rights Management software to help maintain persistent protection and dynamic control over business-critical information while collaborating with suppliers and other supply chain partners electronically.
Increase operational efficiency: Enable users to save time by using common processes and workflows built on the ubiquitous Acrobat platform and PDF.
Eliminate the need to buy or deploy expensive CAD translators: Reduce the cost of managing incompatible CAD files with import and export features that virtually eliminate the need to manually translate or re-create CAD data or invest in costly CAD translators.
Leverage Adobe Professional Services: Take advantage of Adobe Professional Services, a full set of consulting, education, and support services for each phase of an IT deployment, from assessment and implementation to upgrade planning and user training.
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Top reasons for extended enterprise users

Reduce risk and cost by using an open, industry-standard format: Eliminate the need to manage different visualization file formats. PDF is a highly flexible, open standard that enables more secure visualization, collaboration, CAD data interoperability, and data publishing across the entire product lifecycle.
Streamline sourcing, procurement, and supply chain communication: Enable users in sourcing, procurement, and supply chain processes to instantly and easily share product information with the rest of your organization using Acrobat Pro Extended.
Expose product data to a broader audience more securely: Provide access to product data to a much broader audience across the globally extended enterprise by easily sharing PDF files with users of Adobe Reader. Also reduce the cost of sharing your engineering assets.
Extend the use of 3D outside engineering: Reduce costs by extending engineering information across multiple downstream manufacturing processes. Use 3D design assets to start authoring technical documentation and marketing and training deliverables sooner to meet product launch schedules.
Improve people effectiveness while reducing training costs: Let engineers work with their CAD system of choice and share 3D designs in 3D PDF with users of Adobe Reader, enabling them to view, manipulate, analyze, mark up, and comment on designs without CAD applications or CAD viewers.
Protect information inside and outside the firewall: Protect your 3D design data and other proprietary information. With Acrobat Pro Extended, you can apply passwords to restrict access to documents; assign permissions to help control who can print, save, copy, or modify documents; delete any unwanted document metadata; and require digital signatures to certify document authenticity.
Reduce CAD data exchange issues and cost: Reduce the cost of managing incompatible CAD files by providing import and export features that virtually eliminate the need to manually translate or re-create CAD data or purchase expensive CAD translators.
Leverage your existing investment in Acrobat and PDF: Protect your investment in Acrobat software and PDF files and extend it to new classes of users who could not previously use your 3D CAD data, but who already know and trust Adobe tools.
Meet compliance and regulatory issues: PDF is already broadly used to manage and share documentation related to compliance and regulatory requirements, including control data and audit data. With Acrobat Pro Extended, you can save time and increase efficiency by sharing more types of information more easily in compliance workflows.

Top reasons to upgrade

Top reasons for manufacturing professionals

Easily convert CAD files with PDF templates New: Enable technical professionals to convert designs from major CAD applications to rich, interactive PDF documents by choosing one of many professional templates to quickly integrate content, define navigation, and add polish to PDF templates.
Save measurement markups New: Take advantage of more control over measurement markups. Easily adjust placement of the measurement after creation, and save measurements as a view and/or as a comment.
Create 3D comments to emphasize your ideas New: Use the new 3D comment tool to enhance communication of your ideas by attaching comments to a specific part of the 3D model geometry. As the model is manipulated, the 3D comment maintains its perspective in relation to the model. This flexibility enables all reviewers to have greater visibility of your comments, feedback, and suggestions.
Control camera views New: Take advantage of a new Camera tool that enables users to have more control over camera properties. Adjust camera angles, orientation, and position as accurately as desired to highlight the precise area of interest. Users can create preset views that can be used across all PDF documents to help ensure consistent orientation of designs across all files.
Export to STL file format with controlled precision New: Output to the Stereolithography (STL) file format to enable 3D printing for the creation of rapid prototypes. Also access options that control how to output the STL file. This feature enhances existing Adobe support for exporting neutral file formats that can be used in CAD, CAM, and CAE applications for downstream manufacturing processes.
Work better with 3D in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Improved: Embed 3D CAD designs into Microsoft Office documents more easily with Acrobat 9 Pro Extended. A new toolbar is automatically enabled once a 3D CAD design is inserted into a Microsoft Office document. Users can create new views directly within Microsoft Office documents.
Enjoy significant user interface enhancements Improved: Get up to speed quickly on Acrobat 9 Pro Extended with these interface enhancements:; Redesign of the Import and Optimize tabs in conversion settings; Surface triangulation controlled by user-defined setting in the Optimize tab; Enhanced Measurement tool user interface; New fly-through tool accessible via the 3D toolbar; New 3D markup tool accessible via the 3D toolbar; Ability to edit in 3D Reviewer (right-click to select option); Customization of view creation by selecting attributes to be saved; Enhanced solid outline rendering; Display of physical properties in the Properties panel
Leverage support for the latest CAD formats Improved: Take advantage of support for the latest file formats for major CAD applications such as Catia V5R18, Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0, NX 5, Ideas NX 5, SolidWorks 2008, and Solid Edge V20 parts and assembly, as well as support for new CAD formats such as Collada and IFC.
Work with the new 3D Reviewer application New: Use the new 3D Reviewer application included in Acrobat 9 Pro Extended to merge heterogeneous CAD formats into one assembly; measure and section on precise geometry; compare a revised design to an earlier version; and create exploded views, animations, and balloons. Export your work to a variety of neutral formats or 2D vector/raster files, or save as PDF.
Merge heterogeneous CAD data into one assembly New: Import large CAD assemblies from different CAD formats into a single, lightweight assembly that enables users to visualize, analyze, and interact with large amounts of product data in real time. Quickly evaluate relationships between parts from different designers by loading just the structure tree and selectively loading model data that is needed.
Analyze larger CAD assemblies New: Handle CAD assemblies larger than 1GB with dramatically fewer memory resources. Allow the conversion engine to incrementally load only the parts or subassembly data needed to get your work done faster.
Measure and cross-section on precise geometry New: Speed up design reviews by generating dynamic cross-section views or measurements based on precise CAD model geometry. Call attention to parts or subassemblies so everyone fully understands the design details.
Perform physical property calculations New: Access critical physical property information on part models or assemblies such as the calculation of bounding box, volume, center of gravity, mass, and surface area to explore more options. Save time and gain more confidence in proposals, design reviews, and material use.
Determine part association with PMI New: Rapidly understand product manufacturing requirements by easily analyzing which surface in the CAD model is associated with the geometric dimension, tolerance, or annotation. Users can highlight either the PMI data to view the associated model surface or the model surface to determine the associated PMI.
Repurpose design data to publish richer technical documentation New: Quickly clean designs; create balloons and bills of materials; add and modify lighting, materials, or colors; and create exploded views and animations. Then save as PDF files or 2D raster/vector images, creating richer, more interactive technical manuals without the need for an expensive design application.
Compare a revised design to an earlier version New: Leverage easy-to-use tools to graphically compare the difference between successive iterations of your designs without the need for a design application. Different color codes display the differences between unchanged, new, or old geometry. You can even precisely measure or cross-section any of the comparison results.
Generate parting lines for mold design and quickly analyze draft angles New: Reduce the time it takes to design various types of molds by automating the calculation for core/cavity splitting. Use interactive mold analysis tools that automatically generate parting lines and parting direction. Easily calculate draft angles based on different manufacturing conditions.