Read a 3D-PDF with a Mac?

My boss just got an Apple MacBook Pro with OSX, and has installed Acrobat reader 7.0.8
He sees the image but can't rotate the 3D-PDF I have sent him.
http://3d.onlinestoragesolution.com/PDF_3D-Solid/FS-11-008_3D.pdf
I had the impression that this was platform independant.
Is this wrong? If not what needs to be done on the Mac?
Thanks,
Erich

I agree that the software renderer doesn't perform as well or look as nice, in my opinion, as DirectX, but using the OpenGL renderer on my MacTel or G5 looks gorgeous. I think it compares to the DirectX rendering on Windows, but maybe the card on your Mac is different than what I'm running. Your supervisor's GPU may not have enough memory, or the driver may need to be upgraded. I believe the DirectX renderer can be used with as little as 64MB on the GPU, but then that also depends on the GPU. No matter what GPU you're using you should check the manufacturer's web site every so often for driver upgrades. I have found that drivers get upgraded quite frequently in some cases.

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