DWF
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Life seems to have shifted quite radically this week, as the summer here in Switzerland starts drawing to a close. A Sunday morning storm reset the temperature to something more autumnal (although these are looking to climb again gradually - we're not completely done with warm days here, thankfully) and all of my three children […]
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Over on Beyond the Paper, Volker Joseph has posted a DWF Toolkit console application that can be used to batch-convert between the DWF and DWFx formats.
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It seems that the approach for accessing the "_name" property - a hidden property often populated with interesting information about DWF and DWFx objects by our design applications - changed between Autodesk Design Review 2008 and 2009. The approach needed in ADR 2009 has now been demonstrated in a sample provided with this post on […]
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A couple of posts on other blogs that may be of interest to this blog's readership: CAB Files Present vs. CAB Files Future: over on Beyond the Paper, Volker Joseph raises the possibility of Autodesk Design Review moving from a simple CAB distribution model to one which would allow installation of pre-requisite modules (presumably such […]
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I'm currently working on the handouts for my AU classes: two are sessions I delivered last year, so much of the work for those has been to go through make sure everything works on the latest product versions (and to update the screenshots, as they do look much nicer now that I'm running Vista, it […]
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Over on Beyond the Paper, Volker Joseph has just announced the availability of the latest version of the DWF Toolkit, which - excitingly to me, at least - supports the XPS-compatible DWFx format.
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Those of you developing with Autodesk Design Review will be happy to find out that the ADR API documentation for the 2009 release is now available on Beyond the Paper. Enjoy!
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My old friend Volker Joseph, over on Beyond the Paper, wrote recently about a planned overhaul of the Autodesk Design Review API. If you currently use the ADR API, please be sure to check the list of interfaces that are slated for removal and let Volker know of any you consider important. Thanks!
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I touched on this subject a few weeks ago in part 2 of my DWF-related AU handout, but thought I'd come back and describe in more depth some of the fun (although a more accurate word might be "difficulty" 🙂 I had solving this problem. I've been playing around with web services and XML since […]
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[This post continues from part 1 of this series. The source for the below applications is available here: DWF Toolkit application source, Design Review application source & Freewheel application source.] Mining the data with the DWF Toolkit Now we're going to look at using the DWF Toolkit – the freely available, cross platform toolkit for […]