MAPublisher vs ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud
For more than 20 years, MAPublisher for Adobe Illustrator has been the cartographic standard mapping tool that provides map makers and GIS professionals a seamless design environment to create beautiful maps with spatial data. While other plug-ins only allow you to import existing maps with limited functionality, MAPublisher gives you full control over vector data while retaining geographic precision, attribute information, and full use of Adobe Illustrator tools. Some of the many MAPublisher features compared to ArcGIS for Adobe Creative Cloud are listed below.
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| Features | MAPublisher 10.7 | ArcGIS Maps for Adobe | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application Accessibility | Available offline | ||
| Import | Esri Formats: Shapefile (*.shp) ArcGIS Online (Web Map & Feature Layers) ArcGIS Web Service (Web Map & Feature Layers) | ||
| More than 25 other geospatial data formats | |||
| ArcGIS Online Requirements | Access ArcGIS Online with a Public account | ||
| Access ArcGIS Online with a Level 2 Organizational account or higher | |||
| Import from an ArcGIS Online Web Service without an account | |||
| Import local shapefiles without an ArcGIS Online Account | |||
| Export | More than 15 geospatial data formats | ||
| Map Properties | Georeferencing data retained | ||
| View cursor coordinates in projected and/or geodetic units | |||
| Coordinate system transformations | * | ||
| Thousands of defined coordinate systems and projections | * | ||
| Create and edit custom coordinate systems and projections | |||
| Modify map scale | * | ||
| Attributes | View, create, edit and manage feature attributes | ||
| Export attributes | |||
| Merge external attribute data | |||
| Build and edit attribute expressions | |||
| Query attributes to select features | |||
| Apply symbology using attribute values | * | ||
| Calculate art bounds (page and map units) | |||
| Calculate statistics (e.g. sum, mean, standard deviation, etc.) | |||
| Calculate point elevation | |||
| Calculate point north angle | |||
| Calculate line and area centroid | |||
| Data Creation | Plot points | ||
| Plot lines | |||
| Plot areas | |||
| Search online for points of interest and add them to your map | |||
| Geocoding | |||
| Georeference existing non-referenced data | |||
| Geocoding Services | MapQuest | ||
| ArcGIS Online (requires ArcGIS Online account with subscription credits) | |||
| Geoprocessing | Buffer | ||
| Crop | |||
| Join | |||
| Dissolve | |||
| Simplify art and preserve topology | |||
| Trim and Extend line tools | |||
| Merge layers | |||
| Split layers | |||
| Path Utilities | Add vertices | ||
| Copy vertices to a point layer | |||
| Find self intersection points | |||
| Remove duplicate points | |||
| Convert beziers to polylines | |||
| Selection Types | Attribute query | ||
| Saved art selections | |||
| Spatial Filters | |||
| Thematic Tools | Stylesheet Themes - Style layers using Adobe Illustrator swatches, symbols, graphic styles based on feature attributes | ||
| Dot Density Themes - Use dot distributions to represent the number of occurrences of a given attribute in a particular location | |||
| Chart Themes - Chart theme data is read from layer attributes and can be displayed as either a bar chart or pie chart | |||
| Legend | |||
| Customizable legend | |||
| Scale and rotate features by attribute | |||
| Basic Labeling Tools | Simultaneously generate labels for area, line, or point layers | ||
| Set label position and fitting preferences | |||
| MAP Tagger Tool - create labels by clicking individual map features | |||
| MAP Contour Tagger Tool - create labels for contour lines by clicking and dragging across path features | |||
| LabelPro (upgrade required) | Advanced conflict resolution | ||
| Specify label and feature obstacles | |||
| Specify label rules and styles on a per layer basis | |||
| Text Utilities | Apply proper formatting to right-to-left languages | ||
| Convert text on a path to point text | |||
| Separate multiline text | |||
| Merge text | |||
| Extend overflowing text | |||
| Flip upside down text | |||
| Shorten text path | |||
| Set text alignment | |||
| Rectify point text to angle | |||
| Draw shape around text | |||
| Draw anchor point for text | |||
| Curve text to latitude | |||
| Fix one point text | |||
| Add line breaks | |||
| Grids & Graticules | Index Grid | ||
| Measured Grid | |||
| Graticules | |||
| Generate an index text file | |||
| Layout Tools | Scale bar | * | |
| Customizable scale bar | |||
| North Arrow | |||
| Adobe Illustrator Compatibility | CS6 | ||
| CC 2019 | |||
| 2020 | |||
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