Layton Graphics, Inc. Announces Release of MAP2PDF for ArcGIS
MARIETTA, Ga., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Layton Graphics, Inc. today shipped its newest MAP2PDF product, MAP2PDF for ArcGIS. This revolutionary product allows for the creation of intelligent Adobe PDF maps from within ArcGIS. Users can export PDF maps that contain embedded projection coordinates, graphical layers and feature class attributes. GeoPDF maps are easily exported directly out of ArcMAP. Anybody with Adobe Acrobat(R) or free Adobe Reader(R) software can then work with these PDF maps to get full GIS viewing and querying functionality previously not available with more simple PDF image maps. In addition, users with MAP2PDF for Acrobat can dynamically re-project coordinates using various datum's and projections, interact with GPS devices to view live positioning on GeoPDF maps, zoom to coordinates, measure distances/angles in a variety of units of measure, and edit spatial data via standard Adobe PDF forms technology.
"With Acrobat 7.0 and MAP2PDF for ArcGIS, users can now easily create, control and exchange geo-registered 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 Incorporated.
MAP2PDF works by enabling the transformation of real world coordinates to PDF coordinates. Once the map is geo-registered, database information about objects in the map can be embedded as standard PDF comments that can be viewed and queried using Acrobat or the free Adobe Reader. MAP2PDF for ArcGIS allows for users to create dozens of 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.
"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 VP of Layton Graphics. "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, US Geological Survey quad sheets and navigation charts to geo-registered 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 allows for geospatial collaboration using standard web technology, providing users with simultaneous review and comment capabilities on the document.
MAP2PDF supports layering of raster and vector data, making it ideal for simultaneous viewing of vector maps overlayed on aerial raster images. Additionally, Layton Graphics offers software and services for automating bookmarking and hyperlinking of gridded mapping data.
About Layton Graphics, Inc.
Founded in 1976, Layton Graphics, Inc. specializes in publishing mapping and engineering data from CAD, GIS databases, manual drawings and other engineering applications to easy-to-use intelligent PDF files. Layton Graphics sells CAD2PDF and MAP2PDF software, which is used by large organizations for easy rendering of engineering data to intelligent PDF.
