MAP2PDF for ArcGIS allows users to create and exchange PDF maps with both graphics and embedded features.This week Layton Graphics shipped its newest MAP2PDF product, MAP2PDF for ArcGIS. MAP2PDF enables the transformation of existing real-world map coordinates to PDF coordinates.
Once the map is georegistered, database information about objects in the map is easily embedded in the form of standard PDF comments that can be viewed and queried using Acrobat or the free Adobe Reader.
MAP2PDF for ArcGIS also allows users to create graphical layers
with associated custom symbology. When the Acrobat or Adobe Reader hand tool is placed over this symbology, associated feature class attributes are displayed as PDF comments.
Users with MAP2PDF for Acrobat can reproject coordinates using various data and projections, interact with GPS devices to view live positioning on GeoPDF maps, zoom to coordinates, measure distances or angles in a variety of units of measure and edit spatial data via the standard Adobe PDF forms technology.
"MAP2PDF for ArcGIS allows organizations to offer the general public full GIS viewing and querying functionality in an easy to use, ubiquitous file format," said Phil Lee, executive vice president of Layton Graphics Inc. "End users prefer receiving PDF maps, and we give the GIS community the ability to easily embed GIS intelligence back into the maps they currently distribute."
MAP2PDF for ArcGIS is ideal for publishing street, city and county maps, atlas maps, outside plant utility maps, U.S. Geological Survey quad sheets, and navigation charts to georegistered PDF files. In addition, any map distributed to the Web can be viewed as a PDF document.
Web viewing using Adobe Acrobat's Browser-Based Review functionality enables geospatial collaboration using standard Web technology, providing users with simultaneous review and comment capabilities on the document.
"With Acrobat 7.0 and MAP2PDF for ArcGIS, users can now easily create, control and exchange georegistered PDF maps that contain both graphical layers and embedded feature class attributes," said Patrick Aragon, Acrobat product marketing manager, Intelligent Documents Business Unit, Adobe Systems Inc.
