TABLE OF CONTENTS Acrobat includes a range of advanced features that are a bonus for AEC. Although many practicalities and applications of these features may not be readily evident, we will show you their importance. The features range from document contents to ways of streamlining your workflow to using multimedia.
In this chapter you see how to apply several of Acrobat's advanced features to your workflow, including:
Adding and manipulating metadata and other document properties
Using video, multimedia, and Flash
Creating presentations
Building batch scripts
Writing and using Droplets.
Acrobat allows extensive data to be added to a PDF file. On first thought, you may have a difficult time understanding how additional data are of value to you in AEC. Here is an example: imagine having 10,000 important images for a project, and then imagine being able to search for a particular image based on a part number, a date, or a combination of variables.
Metadata is descriptive information about a file that is searchable. Acrobat uses Adobe's eXtensible Metadata Platform (XMP) to embed metadata into a file. Applications that support XMP share the information across file formats, databases, and platforms. For example, metadata added to a source image in Photoshop is converted along with the image data to PDF. It takes some time to develop a structure for defining and including metadata, but it will take only seconds to find a specific image in an emergency.
Additional metadata categories and specific values...
