What you can do with PDF

[Tim Rideout]

Hi All,

 

Given all the discussion about layered PDFs, etc then I thought this might be of interest as an example of what you can actually do with a PDF. Maybe some of the PB Mapinfo folk could consider adding this sort of info into the PDFs that MapInfo creates, and then we could take those straight into Illustrator using MAPublisher to give them a final print quality finishing off (or e.g. to do the page make-up for a book, etc).

 

Please excuse me if you think this a bit too commercial, and yes as both a MapInfo reseller and the UK MAPublisher dealers, we do have a vested interest.

 

Regards

 

Tim

 

Avenza® Announces Geospatial PDF Export from Adobe Illustrator®
- New MAPublisher® version supports creation of spatial accurate and attribute rich PDF files -

Toronto, ON, November 24, 2009 - Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and Geographic Imager® spatial tools for Adobe Photoshop® is pleased to announce that the latest release of MAPublisher, version 8.2, provides MAPublisher and Adobe Illustrator users with geospatial PDF export capability, allowing users to create spatially accurate PDF documents, complete with the full map attribute schema which may be queried and searched, and upon which true distances can be measured within Adobe Acrobat.

Geospatial PDF export functionality is included as a standard feature with the new MAPublisher 8.2 release, the latest version of this powerful mapmaking software used to produce high quality maps from GIS data, and will offer complete support for the Adobe geospatial PDF specification which was released with Acrobat 9 along with an advanced attribute feature set.

"This is the first and only solution that enables map-makers to create attribute-rich geospatial PDF files from within a non-GIS environment,” said Ted Florence, President of Avenza. “This industry has demanded an “intelligent” spatial PDF solution for a long time and we are very pleased to offer support for the Adobe geospatial PDF specification so that users of MAPublisher and Adobe Illustrator can import GIS data, create publication quality maps and output a PDF file that retains all the geospatial and attribute data in a searchable and queriable manner.” he added.


Features of the MAPublisher Geospatial PDF Exporter

The MAPublisher Geospatial PDF exporter offers the ability to generate Adobe Acrobat PDF files that contain all the cosmetic features of the completed Adobe Illustrator map document as well as all the GIS data attributes and co-ordinate information of the original GIS data files, such that within Adobe Acrobat the following functionality can be performed without the aid of any special tools, plugins or other special extensions to Adobe Acrobat.

•    View map locations in various coordinate systems including decimal degrees, DMS, Military Grid and more.
•    Find a location in a map and mark it with a comment.
•    Measure distances on a map using real-world units (miles, kilometers, feet, etc.).
•    Reveal the attributes of map features by clicking on the feature within the map document.
•    Search by map attribute values to reveal all map features that satisfy the query.
•    Option to retain attributes and georeferencing for re-import to Illustrator/MAPublisher.

 

Dr Tim Rideout

Director

 

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