Some Tips on Map Layout & Exporting a Map to Illustrator
If you’d like to finish a map with Adobe Illustrator, that you started in ArcMap, there are a few quirks and best practices you should know about when exporting that map from ArcMap. If you stick with these guidelines/tips, it will make your life a little easier when you get into the Illustrator workspace. First, […]
Utilizing QR Codes on Maps
For the Delta Emergency Flood Response Mapbook, our team decided to use QR (quick response) codes to give our static, print, mapbook a dynamic and interactive element. The QR codes we used in the mapbook allow flood responders (with a smart phone app that can read QR codes) to quickly access real-time weather data as […]
Fusion Table InfoWindow
I set this web map up to communicate some personnel stats for planning staff. The client didn’t want a static map. Using a fusion table/map is a fairly easy way to set up a nice looking interactive map. One of the cool features of this one is the dynamic charting in the infowindow for each […]
Master Page Placeholder Text, InDesign
This is a fairly basic InDesign feature but it’s something that frustrated me for a while. Before I spent much time with InDesign I was always frustrated when I received a file with text frames in the master page that I couldn’t access on a document page. Well, actually, I could. If a text frame, […]
Nested Styles with InDesign
Nested Styles in InDesign is a pretty cool feature. Using nested styles, you can tell InDesign to automatically apply specific styling upto or until a certain character (and that includes hidden characters) then another style up to the next character and so on. So instead of highlighting the first line, enlarging the type size, changing […]
