1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders.
Aerospace Industry - Spacecraft
2. What product and version are you currently running?
Creo View 7.1
3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video.
When exporting / printing a PDF based document from Creo View using the native viewer to PDF, the output is image-based. The resulting PDF is very large vs saving it using the Adobe integration with poor image quality. Additionally as it is image based, the text is not searchable. We would like to see the native viewer in Creo View use the same mechanisms that other applications such as Word or Visio use when exporting as a PDF.
4. What is the use case for your organization?
When we publish documents in Windchill, system based watermarks are also applied. Documents are frequently sent to the shop floor (hard copy) and vendor partners externally. Having the watermarks applied is a requirement when the document is externalized from the PLM system. We rely heavily on Creo View's ability to export documents on a daily basis to PDF as a result.
5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization?
Up until 7.1 we have employed the Adobe integration (Pro & Reader) to open PDF based documents from Windchill in Creo View. The Adobe clients themselves are frequently updated which tends to 'break' the API plugin Creo View uses. This results in a large number of tickets for the Windchill & Desktop support Qs. Everyone on the support side was highly enthusiastic about the new version with its native PDF ability. We felt that this would allow us to finally move away from the Adobe integration and save a great deal of time support wise. However with the PDF output capabilities such as they are, users will move away from the native viewer which will put us right back where we started.
