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Building a PDF Map
With Acrobat Pro Extended
(Windows), you can import
a map image and create
geospatially enabled PDFs.
You can georegister a map
by using its boundary coor-
dinates and the projection
scale on which the map is
based. Select the Geospatial
Registration tool on the
Analysis toolbar, and right-
click an area on the map to
start the Geospatial Registra-
tion wizard.
1.
Type a name for the map.
Click Next.
2.
Define the neatline
(boundaries) for the map
you want to produce. Click
at each of four corners to
add an indicator and con-
tinue to draw the shape;
double-click to end the
neatline. To use the entire
page, select "Use page
bounds as neatline. "
3.
The Input Registration
Points screen of the
wizard displays auto-
matically. Click a point
on your neatline and
type the latitude and
longitude values in the
Input points fields for
the point. Repeat for the
other three boundary
points. Click Next.
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C h a p t e r f o u r t e e n
Tip
As with other comments, you can customize the content and appear-
ance. Read about comments in Chapter 10, "Commenting in a PDF
Document."
Search for specific coordinates rather than scrolling the maps for a
location, a handy approach if you have several pages of maps showing
different features such as topography and rainfall distribution. To use the
coordinate searching, you need a georeferenced map.
Right-click the Geospatial Location tool on the map to open the short-
cut menu and choose Show Location Search. In the Info widget, type the
positioning values in the two blank fields and click Next
is shown on the map in a special icon (Figure 109b). If you like, identify
the location with a comment. Continue adding reference data and identi-
fying map locations as required. When you're done, choose Hide Location
Search from the shortcut menu to close the Search widget.
Figure 109b Identified geographic locations are stored in a comment.
The Measuring tools can measure distance, area, and perimeter on a
map. The tools measure map content in much the same way as measur-
ing any other type of content, with a few exceptions—read about the
Using Drawings, Maps, and Layers
. The location
From the Library of Daniel Dadian