However, you may not have a strong grasp on the details of when to use each one and what each program is capable of-especially since these distinctions often confound even professionals working in the industry. The extension also allows you to download vector data in Photoshop however, vector map data that is synced to Photoshop through this extension will become rasterized and flattened.You probably already know that Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign are the central components of the Adobe Creative Suite.

The Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud extension is a convenient tool for obtaining ArcGIS hosted raster data via Photoshop. Since the only three road categories that were in the mapboard extent were Freeway, Other Paved, and Secondary, these are the only categories that will be synced to this Illustrator file. Image 2 – After syncing the map from Image 1, this is the result in Illustrator, with the North America Roads layer expanded to show the layer structure. Image 1 – This is the view of layers added to a mapboard in the compilation window of the Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud extension before syncing to Illustrator. Labels for vector tile basemaps will be in the vector tile sublayers with the other vector tile data and artwork.

Most labels appear in a single text path, with the exception of text on curved paths (splines) such as river labels. Map labels are converted to text paths when the content is synced to Illustrator. If your map has labels, they will be in a layer called Labels and will be stacked above your artwork layers. The copyright layer is named NameOfMapboard_Copyright. These layers consist of an Esri vector logo and copyright information (see Image 2). There are additional layers at the top of the Illustrator Layers panel in your synced map. The Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud extension is designed so that the layer structure of a downloaded map in Illustrator will be that of the map’s original layer structure (see Image 1 and Image 2 below). While the methods for using the extension in both of these applications are similar, there are a few differences in the synced map’s layer structure for each. The ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud extension allows you to download GIS data into two Adobe Creative Cloud applications, Illustrator and Photoshop.

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