December 2010
Optimizing Geospatial PDF files for PDF Maps
You can bring your maps anywhere with our PDF Maps iOS app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. You can navigate your own map, locate yourself, make a note at the position collected, measure distances, and export and share the collected waypoints on a desktop or online application.
- MAPublisher
- Adobe Illustrator
- Geographic Imager
- Adobe Photoshop
- Windows
- Mac
- Export
- Formats
- Optimization
- PDF Maps app
New Join Areas feature in MAPublisher 8.4
The upcoming release of MAPublisher 8.4 introduces many new features. One of the new features is called Join Areas. We have received a lot of requests from our customers to create area objects by merging common attribute values. This geoprocessing function is generally known as "dissolve".
The picture below shows polygon objects from a USA Counties layer. The goal is to create a layer with state boundaries and summing the population count by joining the objects of the counties layer.
Making dashed lines intersect at every intersection in MAPublisher
One of the great advantages of using Adobe Illustrator for a mapping project is that you can make great line styles easily. For example, to make a double line stroke and one of them is dashed:
