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New, advanced AEC features and near-universal usability: Adobe Acrobat 9 delivers more features for a rich and engaging way to ease use, cut risk, and boost accuracy for construction communications. The secret is embedded intelligence and functionality – right in the Acrobat PDF. Is your project team building on Adobe?

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Adobe Acrobat PDFs that support 3-D models, GIS maps, video animations and any AEC program, with full mark-up and review – Adobe Acrobat 9 is revolutionizing how construction projects are delivered.

Acrobat 9 is more than a new release of the world’s most popular program for creating documents to share with Free Adobe Reader. In fact, it’s a way to take AEC projects to a whole new level.

Today, PDFs generated from Adobe Acrobat can be fully interoperable with most CAD and BIM programs. Your project team can embed Flash presentations and animations right into proposal PDFs made with Adobe Acrobat 9. Plus you can incorporate real geospatial data for accurate mapping.

Most important, Adobe Acrobat 9 speeds your project and ensures accuracy across the entire project team, with new tools to share, compare and mark-up useful digital project data. That means better scheduling, lower costs, and less risk.

Need more reasons to make Acrobat your standard for project delivery?

How Acrobat 9 is revolutionizing AEC project delivery:
  • Capture data from any app. Create PDFs using files from all your key project applications: AutoCAD, MS Visio, Project, Office, Internet Explorer, and more.
  • Create single-file “portfolios.” To improve client reviews and team collaboration, combine files in both PDF and their native formats into a single, interactive PDF portfolio.
  • Share fully interoperable info. Issue PDFs to project team members with full BIM model information, thanks to new support for IFC standards, or Industry Foundation Classes – the backbone of interoperability.
  • Mark-up and review – together. Compare and comment on project info, whether 2-D or 3-D or any other file types, with new tools to synchronize views, instantly compare versions, and manage the overall process.
  • Manage real construction data. With Acrobat 9, the project team can compile, analyze and flow design/construction data directly into project databases.
  • Ensure project and client security. Keep your proprietary design and construction info safe with document-level security features.
  • Share it with the world! Use Adobe Acrobat 9 to allow anyone to review 2-D and 3-D project files, regardless of their software capabilities. All they need is the Free Adobe Reader.
  • Adobe Acrobat 9: The Standard for Business – and for the AEC Industry
    There are many reasons to use Adobe Acrobat 9 for AEC projects, to better manage design and construction communications. Two crucial considerations stand out, however:
    1. It’s been the standard for the business world.
      Adobe PDFs are the best-used document format globally, because Acrobat allows you to preserve crucial project information while actively sharing and reviewing. Plus we meet all the international standards.
    2. It’s now the standard for the AEC world.
      New features built into PDF technology make it better than ever for architecture, engineering, construction and even facility management. Fully compatible with BIM, CAD, and GIS – and with reliable collaboration tools – PDFs have become real assets for AEC project teams.
    Adobe Acrobat: Meeting International Standards
    Adobe Acrobat 9 meets all the crucial ISO Standards to fully serve the needs of the AEC industry:
  • PDF ISO 32000 – The standard for document management of the PDF format.
  • PDF/A (archiving) ISO 19005-1 – The standard for effective long-term archiving.
  • PDF/E (engineering) ISO 24517-1 – The standard for documents used in engineering projects and workflows.
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