1. Breaking out of 2D: Interactive PDFs
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Michelle Borkin
Harvard University
ICSTI Winter Meeting Workshop - February 8, 2010

2. Why do I care about 3D PDFs?

4. Where did 3D PDFs originate?
Images courtesy of Mark Thomas.

5. What are your options for making a 3D PDF?
Deep Exploration
Adobe Acrobat 9
Pro Extended
Other new ones, e.g. PDF3D

6. How difficult is it to make a 3D pdf?
It depends on what you want to do…

7. Why should the e-publishing community support these files?

8. Summary PDF is well excepted universal standard.
Bundles together data with article.
Easy for publisher to archive.
Allows user to interact with the data.
Gives another form of narrative to the paper.

9. For more information… Thank you! The AM project & 3D publications:
My work:
Thank you!