Wednesday, December 31

Identifying in PDF created from ArcMap

Sometimes it's important to have a deliverable that can be consumed by someone who doesn't have access to GIS. A paper map serves some immediate needs, but it's important to be able to see a lot of the information behind the layers.

It's a fairly easy process to export your project to a pdf, you'll just need to go through one extra step in ArcGIS 9.3. After clicking 'save as' and selecting 'pdf', you'll need to go to the 'options' section, click the 'advanced' tab and under layers and attributes, select "Export PDF Layers and Feature Attributes".

From here, I created a video for end users of the pdf. Finding the equivalent to an identify tool can be a little challenging for a new user.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Very helpful, thanks! I tried to export a lot of data, and it really slowed down identification. The pdf can get huge too-