PDF support

JamesWasa
JamesWasa Global Mapper User
edited January 2008 in Suggestion Box
Hi, It would be nice to be able to bring a PDF (Governement Vector Maps published on their web site) into GM and then use the Image Rectifier to line up overtop of say LandSAT 7 images then export to Google Earth. Virtual Earth has a nice feature via MapCruncher that allows you to bring in PDFs and line them up with the VE base maps.

Cheers James.

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  • global_mapper
    global_mapper Administrator
    edited January 2008
    We have an item on our todo list to support GeoPDF in a future release, but I'm not sure when we might get to it.

    Thanks,

    Mike
    Global Mapper Support
    support@globalmapper.com
  • JamesWasa
    JamesWasa Global Mapper User
    edited January 2008
    Hi Mike, Adobe Illustrator can open most Vector PDF files. I normally have to open PDF maps up in Illustrator to clean them up to look nice. I seems many GIS programs are not as interested in making nice looking maps for the web. But then I have to rasterize the map to bring it into Global Mapper. It would be nice to keep it as a Vector file.

    Cheers James
  • global_mapper
    global_mapper Administrator
    edited January 2008
    James,

    That is something that we'd like to do, but PDF is a very complex format not really designed with mapping in mind, so it would be a pretty huge endeavor. If we can find a library or something to help us out it might be better.

    In general we consider PDF to be an output format and not really a format for working with spatially referenced mapping data.

    Thanks,

    Mike
    Global Mapper Support
    support@globalmapper.com

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