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Comments on: Nature moves into 3D publishing

wheeee 

Posted Tuesday 6th January 2009 16:15 GMT

It's a 3-D object in a PDF! Fun! And you actually made me install a new Adobe Reader in order to see it!

If being 3 months later is first... 

Posted Tuesday 6th January 2009 16:57 GMT

Spare me the hyperbole... Nautre were nowhere near being first for this:

Trends in Biochemical Sciences, ***Sept 2008***, Kumar et al. Grasping molecular structures through publication-integrated 3D models.

Currently available as a free download from http://www.cell.com/trends/biochemical-sciences/ as their featured article.

If I recall correctly, another journal might have published a 3D PDF at a similar time too, perhaps slightly earlier.

Foxed 

Posted Tuesday 6th January 2009 20:22 GMT

Boffin

Spare me a thought someone.

Is it worth changing from Foxit Reader for something I am never going to pay Nature to read?

Wait A Minute 

Posted Tuesday 6th January 2009 20:27 GMT

Alert

"...sounding a death knell no doubt for publications like this one still struggling to get to grips with 2D graphics."

You have graphics?

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