Key capabilities

• Automate PDF file creation

  • LiveCycle PDF Generator 3D ES is a server-based solution that can be centrally deployed across the enterprise to convert product data into more secure PDF files. Save time by automating mission-critical business processes such as product development and supply chain management. If your organization currently shares and archives information in PDF documents, LiveCycle PDF Generator 3D ES offers flexible deployment options that can complement existing core business systems and processes.

• Integrate virtually any product data into a single PDF file

  • Integrate 2D and 3D design data from multiple CAD formats and product information from a wide variety of applications into a single PDF file. Now your trusted PDF files can contain product manufacturing information* (PMI), parts lists, datasheets, engineering change order information, Microsoft Office documents, and more.

• Manage PDF file creation and conversion on a central server

  • LiveCycle PDF Generator 3D ES makes it easy to include centralized PDF file creation within established business applications and processes. Your organization can use PDF documents to share virtually any product information safely and securely, or as part of an archiving solution. Flexible deployment options — including network watched folder, e-mail, web user interface, or Java™ APIs — easily plug into and complement existing business systems and processes to customize how employees create PDF documents. Plus, you help ensure that the PDF documents your employees generate are optimized for file size, resolution, and security to support your organization's business processes, corporate guidelines, or government regulations.

• Keep everyone synchronized

  • Enable everyone you authorize to access critical project information when they need it. All they need is free Adobe Reader® software to easily and more securely view and interact with product data and other documents, without the need for design applications or viewers. A PDF file looks exactly like the original document, preserving text, layout, forms, 2D drawings, and 3D design data, regardless of the application used to create it or the environment in which it's viewed.

• Share and archive business-critical documents in a consistent format

  • Whether employees are communicating with customers or suppliers, submitting regulatory filings, or getting approval of design changes, LiveCycle PDF Generator 3D ES helps improve business process efficiency by leveraging a single, trusted document. Your organization can simplify and streamline product development, manufacturing, supply chain, content management, and archival processes by automatically converting documents into PDF/A for long-term retention and archiving of your documents.
    
    Because PDF documents are fully searchable, LiveCycle PDF Generator 3D ES helps you more easily find key information, as well as comply with government regulations. It also makes it easy to convert PDF documents to other file formats, such as TIFF, PNG, JPEG, and HTML, when those formats are needed in corporate systems.

• Create searchable documents from image files

  • LiveCycle PDF Generator 3D ES provides enterprise-class technology that can import flat image files and make them come alive as searchable PDF files. This is especially useful when converting popular image file formats such as TIFF into PDF files. The conversion process uses Adobe’s leading optical character recognition (OCR) technology to associate character shapes with the characters they represent. When the resulting searchable PDF file is opened in Adobe Reader, the document has the same appearance as the original, but users can now select and search for specific text.

• Protect your sensitive information inside and outside the firewall

  • LiveCycle PDF Generator 3D ES lets you apply basic security protocols and settings — such as requiring passwords to open a document — to control how users interact with PDF documents. You can also restrict users' ability to print, copy, modify, or extract content from a document.

• Adapt PDF documents for new purposes

  • LiveCycle PDF Generator 3D ES helps extend many of the PDF document assembly, disassembly, and manipulation features of Adobe Acrobat® desktop products, letting you automatically create information-rich, high-volume custom documents on an enterprise server. Assemble content from diverse sources and file formats into a single PDF package that includes cohesive pagination, indexing, resizing, addition of headers and footers, insertion or deletion of pages, and creation of a table of contents — all according to your unique product lifecycle and deployment requirements.

• Extend existing business processes with additional solution components

  • Since PDF Generator 3D ES is part of LiveCycle ES, it integrates with other LiveCycle solution components to enhance existing work processes such as document reviews or approval processes involving customers, partners, or suppliers. For example, create or model existing workflows with Adobe LiveCycle Process Management ES software, and then assemble and route PDF documents to stakeholders for review and resubmission, for example in an RFQ, ECO, or configuration management process.
    
    Create and publish certified documents or full document packages and manage an approved signature process to certify authenticity of PDF documents being sent to suppliers, customers, or regulatory agencies with Adobe LiveCycle Digital Signatures ES software.

• Add enhanced security for even greater safeguarding

  • For advanced security, deploy Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management ES software in concert with LiveCycle PDF Generator 3D ES. With it, organizations can apply persistent confidentiality, privacy, and policy protection to enable access control, revocation, revision control, and audit trails to electronic documents — online or offline, inside or outside the firewall — throughout the document lifecycle.
    
    Product manufacturing information is used to convey information such as geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, annotations, and other specifications directly on the 3D model.