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USING ACROBAT X STANDARD
Editing PDFs
Last updated 10/11/2011
Using Geospatial PDFs
About geospatial PDFs
A geospatial PDF contains information that is required to georeference location data. When geospatial data is
imported into a PDF, Acrobat retains the geospatial coordinates. With the coordinates, you can view and interact with
the PDF to find and mark location data.
Geospatial data can be either vector or raster based or a combination of both. After you import geospatial data into
Acrobat, you can use the data in a variety of ways:
• Find and mark location coordinates.
• Measure distance, perimeter, and area.
• Change the coordinate system and measurement units.
• Copy location coordinates to the clipboard, and then use them to show locations in several web mapping services.
Interact with geospatial PDFs
When you open a geospatially enabled PDF, you can find locations, measure distances, and add location markers. You
can also copy coordinates to the clipboard for use with a web mapping service.
View the geospatial measuring tools by choosing Tools > Analyze panel.
Use the Geospatial Location tool to perform these tasks:
• View latitude and longitude while the cursor is over an area containing geospatial information.
• Mark a location with a geospatial annotation.
• Search for a location in a document.
More Help topics
“Annotations and drawing markup tools overview” on page 129
“Measure the height, width, or area of objects” on page 31
Find map locations
1 Open a geospatial PDF and choose Tools > Analyze > Geospatial Location tool .
2 Right-click inside the map, and then click Find A Location.
3 Type the latitude and longitude values (degrees, minutes, seconds, or decimal) in the two text boxes, and click Find.
If at least one location is available, the location is highlighted with a blue square and the page is centered on the
highlighted location.
4 If the PDF includes more than one map, click the Next or Previous button to view additional results, if any. Multiple
locations are available in several situations:
• When a document contains multiple maps (for example, if a PDF contains a smaller map within a larger map, such
as a city within a map of a state or country). When you search for a location within the city, Acrobat finds it in both
the larger map and the city map.
• When a document contains multiple pages of a map (for example, if page one is a map of a country and page two
is a map of a state or city within the country).