#Erdas imagine 2014 license renewal Patch#
#Erdas imagine 2014 license renewal zip#

All Points Blog also discuss this and, somewhat fairly, note that “they do highlight how complex it can be to actually get them done!” However this has to be taken within the context of the 1987 Chorley report and the 1997 followup. It covers much old ground and gives a rather uninspiring action plan on p17. This time we have the UK Location Strategy published by DCLG (and the GI Panel). I have no doubt that Adobe will get there, but its going to take time. But no one has got robust processing routine…. GeoPDFs are really starting to hit the big time and ESRI/Adobe appear to have big plans.

This suggests that it is a far from mature product area. So there you have it, my totally unscientific and cursory exploration of producing PDFs of two complex/large vector and raster maps. Solution? Go back to ArcGIS 9.2 which seems to produce a better raster product I wasn’t happy with the filesize/quality trade-off the ArcGIS 9.3 produces, so switched back to MAP2PDF which took 5 minutes to render the map before it crashed ArcGIS. However the difference in quality can be significant. Whilst there is granular control in ArcGIS on the resolution, the JPEG “quality” is, well, pants! There are only 5 settings and only setting 3 or 4 is worth using. The second map is really just a very large raster and needs to look good, but retain a small filesize. However it doesn’t work with one of the clipped raster layers properly, although a fix is supposedly coming. It also deals with vector layers correctly and the final output looks much better. I then switched to trying Terrago’s MAP2PDF which uses a totally different rendering engine, is much slower, but has greater control over the final product. It makes for a bit of a mess and to be honest its hopeless really not fit for publication. However ArcGIS appears to be indiscriminately rasterizing some elements of the map and leaving others as vectors.

I am in the final stages of PDFing two large (in terms of filesize) maps, one with a large raster backdrop and some complex vector layers, the other with a very large raster backdrop!! The first map was being rendered almost exactly “as seen on screen” and incredibly quickly. I have even had some maps submitted to the Journal of Maps that make good use of vector layers within the PDFs (and indeed some authors who don’t realise they are exporting GeoPDFs). The added functionality is really very very good and considering this is their first release it works remarkably well. I’ve been fiddling around with GeoPDF generation in ArcGIS 9.3 this week and its been quite frustrating. I previously had set up a couple of batch scripts to manually start and stop the license server to get around this but its nice to see it sorted out properly.

#Erdas imagine 2014 license renewal Patch#

In fact many of the other fixes in this patch related to laptop use and specifically the need to hibernate laptops and plug/unplug the dongle. I’ve blogged before about the frustration of using a dongle based system and I think this move probably reflects the increased use of ArcGIS on laptops. Much of this patch is actually related to laptop usability. OK, so this is not a “feature” related in anyway to spatial processing, but it finally means the whole rigmarole of dongles is gone. Yes it’s true, ESRI have finally ditched the requirement for the use a USB dongle (or old style parallel port dongle) in favour of a keyless authentication system. The latter is particularly welcome as GeoPDFs (and layers) have become far more prevalent. As with previous releases the speed of rendering PDFs is excellent, with functions supporting thumbnails and layers added in this release.

At 7Mb, and 1 file, it’s a pleasantly small and simple bit of kit.

#Erdas imagine 2014 license renewal zip#

Again, you can download the ZIP and simply extract the EXE in to any directory you want meaning you can run it from a USB stick). Foxit Reader 3 has recently been released and it’s a worthy upgrade.