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2. PDF Workout Portable Document Format (PDF). Developed by the software company Adobe, Inc., Adobe, Inc. Adobe, Inc. PDF is used for viewing digital documents such as tax forms or brochures that look just like their paper equivalents. PDF files can be viewed and printed with Adobe Acrobat Reader. Adobe Acrobat Reader Adobe Acrobat Reader

3. Ground floor plan showing bookmarks and "Post-It" notes.

4. Architects can convert their own work into PDF files and send visually accurate, read-only versions of drawings to their clients and consultants. AutoCAD and other software's can be converted directly to PDF file. "Save As PDF" AutoCAD and other software's can be converted directly to PDF file. "Save As PDF"AutoCAD Thumbnails linked to large drawing sheets allow you to see the full set at a glance.

5. Linking PDF Files sending out a whole job set of drawings as PDFs. A floor plan with a link to an animation.

6. Adobe Acrobat allows you organize a collection of related PDF drawings into a master PDF file with a linkable index. Mark-ups of CAD detail drawings in Adobe Acrobat

7. Additionally, you can link any part of any page to any other part of any other page. Acrobat will allow you to link that wall section, so that in one click, viewers can go directly to the enlarged view of the detail. A building section with materials hyperlinked to building product manufacturers' Web sites.

8. Thumbnails, Notes, and Links Acrobat can create thumbnails images of each page or sheet providing a visual index for your drawing set. Clicking on a thumbnail brings up a rendering image.

9. red-marking function : Acrobat provides some rudimentary tools for drawing over an area for highlighting particular areas, drawing elements, or phrases.

10. : Annotation tool : The note minimizes to a yellow flag that opens when the viewer clicks on it. You can write short messages to explain. You can also insert links in the PDF file to manufacturers' Web sites Deck detail linked from a thumbnail menu.

11. Another useful aspect of Acrobat is that you can link from your drawings to other types of files. A floor plan linked to elevation renderings.

12. Security Controls WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) You can also attach "digital signatures" that verify your approval.

13. Other Sweet Features 1) Capture Web pages and convert them whole into PDF files. 2) Scan in a page and have Acrobat's optical character recognition (OCR) engine convert it into searchable/scalable text. 3) create your own fill-in forms for others to return to you online. 4) Indexing and cataloging features 5) Reviewers can do markups from within a Web browser