Avenza Systems Inc. announced 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.
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.
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