Modern browsers provide a good support of 3D graphics and can get the most of the device hardware. It doesn’t matter what device or operating system you use, you definitely have a browser there. So what format is supported by all the modern devices and doesn’t require a special viewer? Of course it is HTML. The artwork resolution is limited by Adobe Reader, so special tricks are needed in order to display high–res graphics. As a designer you get texture, tint color, reflection level and very simple transparency and lighting. The set of features of 3D PDF format, especially when it comes to materials stuck back in 2005. Again, this could easily become a problem.
In other words you need to make sure that the person who gets a 3D PDF file from you has a proper viewer and uses it on a desktop or laptop. Most of the modern browsers have their own PDF viewer for our convenience and those viewers do not support 3D content in PDF. Today it may not be an option even on “big” non–mobile devices. Viewer is Neededīack in 2005 everyone has a copy of Adobe Reader on their laptop or desktop.
They will hardly drop 3D PDF completely, but no new features since 2007 means the technology is more dead than alive. More, Adobe itself in their recent products shifted towards different 3D formats and concepts. The format gets no updates since 2007, Acrobat Reader displays warnings before opening 3D content and Acrobat DC can only embed two very rare 3D formats: U3D and PRC. Lack of SupportģD is not a first class citizen in Adobe PDF infrastructure since about 2010. Basically, there is a zero chance that someone can look into 3D PDF on a mobile device. Of course, there are some apps that can do the job, but they are far from being as popular as Adobe Reader on desktop. Many people use mobile devices instead of good old desktops or laptops and unfortunately, there is almost no decent 3D PDF viewer available for mobile. On the other hand, it is not 2005 anymore and many things have changed. On one hand, Adobe still supports 3D PDF in their products and you can make a 3D PDF file in Acrobat DC and open in in Acrobat Viewer. “Don’t fix that’s not broken” the say, so is 3D PDF broken enough so we really need an alternative? So what are the modern alternatives to 3D PDF when it comes to sharing 3D models? Why Alternatives? Data is migrating to the cloud for easier management and sharing and this includes 3D content, too. Mobile devices made a great advance, as well as HTML and open standards.
3D PDF format was invented in 2005, the last format update was around 2007 and there wasn’t much done about it since then.
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