Acro9 Series: “X” Marks the Spot
22nd July, 2009 - Posted by MsD
The Acrobat 9 Download Series: Readers of my articles at acrobatusers.com who’d like to read offline at their leisure can now download a PDF in a print-ready format.
Georegistered PDF is the current topic of the month at Acrobatusers.com.
Acrobat 9 Pro Extended includes PDF mapping, the ability to use geospatial information as a document layer or embedded within a simple PDF document. Locations marked on a map include interactive coordinates. If you’re not involved in an industry dependent on geospatial data, you can still use PDF mapping.
There’s no doubt that including PDF mapping capabilities in the PDF 1.7 specification shook up traditional markets that use geospatial data, such as construction, surveying, public works projects and the like. Rather than working with flat images of map layers (which lose their data) or trying to manage enormous Geo TIFF image files, workers in the field can access map data directly from their sources, add markups as necessary, and interact with the map PDF just as they would with any other PDF file.
Click to download article and attached example PDF map
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StevenD
July 29th, 2009 at 9:41 am
Where does one fine the coordinates ie. latitude and longitude for static maps that need to be manualy turned into geospacial maps in Acrobat? Am I going to be able to find maps that have that kind of information located somewhere in the PDF or map?
MsD
July 29th, 2009 at 10:28 am
Hi Steven -
You can find coordinates for any location using Google Earth, which is what I used for the demo files.
You can also buy/access georeferenced data, but it’s out of the price range of the average user.
Lance Williamson
October 9th, 2009 at 10:56 am
When creating the map, I don’t undestand the projected and datum conversion variab les. Can you please elaborate?
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