[3dem] PDF with 3D models
Leonardo Trabuco
ltrabuco at ks.uiuc.edu
Thu May 22 10:10:37 PDT 2008
Hi,
VMD provides support for Acrobat3D. You may wanna check this out:
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/minitutorials/acrobat3d/
Best,
Leo
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:27:43AM -0400, Magali Cottevieille wrote:
> Hi Eduardo,
>
> I didn't know this new feature of Acrobat, it's impressive. I wish it
> could be applied to scientific publications in biology. I don't think
> there is any viewer able to generate such figures, since Adobe is
> selling its own 3D pdf generator:
> http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat3d/.
> So you will probably have to pay US$699 for the licence.
> Another issue is even if you buy it, you have no insurance that you can
> use in input your usual material. Adobe says that the normal CAD formats
> are recognized... Maybe you could try to download the trial version...
>
> Magali
>
> >Today, I was reading a correspondence in Nature
> >(http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7194/full/453450d.html)
> >that talks about the PDF capabilities of displaying 3D models. It is
> >possible to rotate, and zoom in and out the 3D model from inside the
> >PDF viewer (you can see some examples here:
> >http://www.3dhh.de/3d-PDF/index-en.htm).
> >I was wondering if there is any cryo-EM package that allows to save 3D
> >models in PDF format. I don't know if this is even possible. Maybe too
> >many vertex are necessary to represent accurately a cryo-EM
> >isosurface, and the final PDF file would be too big. How about atomic
> >coordinate models?
> >I would like to open a discussion about the usefulness of this concept
> >in our field. Would you like to read a paper and be able to rotate,
> >zoom in/out the figures (I don't even know if there is possible to
> >include several 3D model in the same PDF and along with normal test).
> >I know that cryo-EM models and PDB files are always included as a
> >supplemental material, but sometimes it is difficult to display the
> >same area, you lose coloring, labels, etc. Superfluous, necessary,
> >imposible, the future? The end of stereographic images? More work for
> >authors?
> >Your comments...
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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