PDF documents

PDF documents can increase the efficiency of a reviewer. Time savings can be obtained for reviewers in preparing data evaluation records owing to the ability to copy and paste (drop and drag) information from the PDF study directly into the review s application. 

Acrobat 4.0 has a table/formatted text select tool that allows one to select tables and text in a PDF document and retain the original formatting when the material is... 

Bioanalytical Systems, Inc., 2701 Kent Avenue, West Lafayette, IN 47906-1382, USA or http //www.current separations, com (where some articles can be downloaded as. pdf documents). 

Illicit Drug Traffic and Supply World Situation with Regard to Illicit Drug Trafficking and Action Taken by Subsidiary Bodies of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs United Nations Economic and Social Council, Commission on Narcotic Drags, 45th Session, Vienna, 11-15 March, 2002. . 

Source of electronic documents Electronic source documents should be used for creation of PDF documents instead of scanned documents wherever possible. 

Indexing PDF documents Full text indices are used to help find specific documents or search for text within a document. For scanned documents, this indexing is not possible. 

PDF document stored on the CD-ROM. Clicking the cell that contains the HYPERLINK function, activates Microsoft Excel (version 97 and above), to open the file stored at linkJocation.)... 

This PDF document was made available from www.rand.org as a public service of the RAND Corporation. 

The following systems are entirely Internet-based and incorporate all elements of submission, review, and manuscript management, unless otherwise noted. They operate with standard browsers and require that authors, editors, and reviewers have Adobe Acrobat Reader to view PDF documents. Authors, reviewers, and editors are offered a secure, password-protected login. Each system incorporates an author home page for the submission, revision, and tracking of manuscripts. Similarly, each system allows referees to submit reviews of manuscripts online. 

Many publishers now accept properly created Portable Document Files, or PDFs. A PDF document is created when an application file produced by any of a number of software programs is distilled , using software such as Adobe s Acrobat Distiller. The PDF document can be viewed on any platform using viewing software such as Adobe s Acrobat Reader, regardless of whether the viewer has the original application software. 

The profusion of original papers is so great that publications that merely list the titles of current papers find much use. Such lists are primarily methods of alerting the chemist to useful papers published in journals that they do not normally read. This approach, using print versions containing lists or journals and articles, is not used much nowadays. Most journals are available on-line, and many have the original papers, with supplemental material, as HTML and pdf documents. The pdf document can be downloaded to the searcher s desktop, usually for a fee, and is... 

It is possible to restore some form of structure to a PDF document collection by using bibliographic tools such as Reference manager or EndNote. This in fact requires a great deal of effort on the part of the user. The lack of self-identifying metadata, as noted above (Figures 7.1, 7.2) makes this process relatively manual and arduous, and one few students would assiduously adopt over a degree course. 

As an example of how to use metadata to get document dates, the current version of the EPA s Questions Answers for the New Chemicals Program is undated, and the EPA s Web site does not refer to version numbers, but the pdf document has useful data buried in it. If it is opened using Adobe Reader , the File pulldown menu will have a tab called Properties, and the document dates will be revealed by clicking on the tab labeled Properties. ... 

Accessibility Assistance Contact OSHA s Office of Communications at 202-693-1999 for assistance accessing PDF documents. 

PDF/A-2 has the advantages of JPEG 2000 compression for scanned documents or that collections of PDF/A-1 - documents (scanned documents) can be combined in a container PDF document, or even support of different levels (layers) in documents. Furthermore, the requirements for customer metadata (XMP) have been defined. 

Universal 3D (U3D) was developed by Ecma International and is a compressed file format for 3D data that is natively supported by the PDF format. 3D objects in U3D format can be inserted into PDF documents and visualized interactively. The PDF standard supports the first and third editions of U3D both these versions can include only tessellated geometry and animation data. 

A 3D PDF document containing 3D geometry models as well as additional meta data is shown in Fig. 11.16. 

The use of these intelligent 3D PDF documents, which are filled automatically with the current 3D models and 2D information from the back-end systems, also speeds up the creation of sales and service documentation and their updates when... 

With 3D PDF, this information can be communicated on a level, which is very easy-to-use on the one hand but on the other hand adds additional functionalities into the PDF document by including active 3D geometry combined with PMI (e.g. dimensions or tolerances) into an interactive document. 

Another use case for 3D PDF is the assembly of CAx data coming either from different CAD systems and/or from different partners. With a web based structure browser ( Interactive Assembler ), different CAD assemblies or parts of them can be selected and afterwards automatically converted into one PDF document. This document then includes all 3D content together with all structure information from the original CAx applications. This PDF document can be used for review, lightweight collaboration or communication processes (Fig. 23.7). 

Fig. 23.7 3D PDF document with embedded active 3D CAD geometry (cross sectioned)...

Most importantly, the added content of the PDF document (comments, aimo-tations, form fields) later on can be exported again firom the PDF document and stored back into virtually any enterprise system. Or, as an alternative, all comments coming back from various participants of a review process could be aggregated into one PDF document. This document then gives an overview of aU comments from various review participants in one document. 

An example from a recent project is the documentation of holes to route pipes through steel structure. The process is triggered by the piping designer, who selects assemblies and parts to be exported into a 3D PDF document. An automatic process for the generation of a 3D PDF document is started. Together with geometric information (which, of course, also includes the representation of the requested holes), additional metadata information for each hole is exported. 

In the PDF document, a 3D representation plus a list with the metadata for each hole is included. The content types in the document are interlinked, so the receiving steel designer can click on the metadata of a specific hole which directly links to the 3D representation of this hole in the context of the steel stmcture in highlighted mode. By directly showing the active 3D geometry of a ship s section with all of the holes to be included, the steel designer gets appropriate information for his task to approve the requested holes in a very eflScient way. He can work on a plain workstation with Adobe Reader and does not need any CAD or PLM access at all. 

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