![]() Various user interface and performance enhancements to improve usability.New ability to view attributes in a tear-off panel.New Path Utilities tool to perform optimization actions on line and area layers.New Automation tool to configure settings that initiate MAPublisher operations upon data import to automate map production, such as manage MAP Views, apply MAP Theme stylesheets, create grids and graticules, label using MAP LabelPro, and export to geospatial PDF.Export document to image can export a georeferenced image of the entire artboard.Improved MAP View and MAP layer export with multiple layer export supported.Streamlined export document to geospatial PDF with clearer indications of how layers and attributes are being handled and exported to appear in Adobe Acrobat. ![]() We’ve improved export to geospatial PDF because we are focused on delivering this very popular format to suit the needs in many industries and agencies in all levels of government and to make it easier to produce maps for our mobile PDF Maps platform.Įnhancements and new features of MAPublisher 9.2 Not only can our users create high-quality maps with MAPublisher, they can also use it to increase file interoperability across multiple platforms and overall workflow efficiency, he added. ![]() “We’re delighted to release MAPublisher 9.2 which includes improved export functionality and advanced map-making automation, said Ted Florence, President of Avenza. Also included in this release are several new tools including Automation and Path Utilities. Export has been improved and streamlined to make it easier to quickly export MAP Views and MAP layers. This exciting release includes a number of new and exciting product enhancements. Everything will take longer, and the alignments won’t be as precise.Toronto, March 26, 2013”Avenza Systems Inc., producers of the PDF Maps app for iOS and geospatial plugins for Adobe Creative Suite, including Geographic Imager for Adobe Photoshop, is pleased to announce the release of MAPublisher 9.2 for Adobe Illustrator. The bottom lineĭon’t start making a map brochure without guides. But a more important aspect of using multiple programs is that you ultimately have more creative options open to you. There are many guide options in the View Menu:Īs I work with Affinity’s suite and Creative Cloud, I can’t help but prefer one method to other methods. If you need special objects, like a circle to use as guides, you can create a layer that other layers can snap to, but that wouldn’t be a guide in the same way that other background graphics are. You can set up the guides in View–>Guides Manager. Using Affinity In Affinity programs (Designer, Photo and Publisher) If you have 6 panels, you could make the grid 18 columns and 9 rows to have more guides.Īdditional guides can be created by adding objects to the layout and then selecting “Make Guide”. Once the document is open, I’d use Layout->Create guides, to create map brochure panels without gutters. I generally add 18 point, but 9 pt would be fine. For a 24×12″ page, I’d set up 6 columns, with a column gutter of 28 pt and 14pt document margins. The setup is largely done when creating a new document. Draw a rectangle to match the artboard and copy it.Make sure smart guides are turned on CMD-U.When you export the map, you might want to export it as a GeoPDF that can be used by the Avenza Maps app. Sometimes it may be desirable to create the map brochure in Illustrator. The differences are subtle, but important. Here’s the approach in Illustrator or InDesign. The result was like the blue guides shown here. ![]() The way I used to set up projects was by creating guides dragged from rulers.
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