

In the real world, natural or artificial boundaries and features are continually changing, and cartographers need to update maps at different scales and different styles to reflect these changes. promotions/products/creative-cloud/illustrator MAPublisher maintains geographic properties of any data imported into Illustrator and maintains a “map awareness” where users can make unique design decisions using data-driven design tools.

However, those exported files’ geographic information is lost once opened in Illustrator, essentially turning them into static “map illiterate” documents. Many GIS applications offer an Adobe Illustrator export option, proving that Illustrator has long been the preferred work environment for making maps. MAPublisher bridges the gap between the two worlds of GIS and graphic design software. In contrast, graphic design software has treated geographic features as any other graphic elements, without regard for how they are connected in predictable ways to other geographic elements and to Earth itself.

Traditionally, GIS software has offered users limited ability to manipulate the visual attributes (hue, brightness, saturation, transparency, line thickness, text, etc.) of geographic features. Data-driven map design with MAPublisher for Adobe Illustratorįor more than 25 years, MAPublisher® has been the standard map design solution for Adobe Illustrator, offering users GIS (geographic information systems) functionality in a graphic design environment.
