Adobe Illustrator – Avenza MAPublisher Writer

FME can translate and import data into the Adobe® Illustrator® file format, complete with Avenza MAPublisher MAP Views and MAP Layers.

Adobe Illustrator – Avenza MAPublisher Product and System Requirements

Note Writing to this format also requires Avenza MAPublisher 9.3+ and Adobe Illustrator.

Format	Platform			Operating System
Reader/Writer	FME Desktop License	FME Server	FME Cloud	Windows 64-bit	Linux	Mac
Writer	Available in FME Professional Edition and higher	Yes	No	Yes	No	No

Overview

The Adobe Illustrator – Avenza MAPublisher writer provides export options to convert GIS data into a new Adobe Illustrator document, complete with MAPublisher MAP Views and MAP Layers.

With the Adobe Illustrator – Avenza MAPublisher writer, it is possible to create an Adobe Illustrator document containing data from formats that are not natively supported by Avenza MAPublisher using the power of FME format translations within FME Workbench.

The Adobe Illustrator – Avenza MAPublisher writer provides the following capabilities:

FME FFS support: MAPublisher 9.3+ for Adobe Illustrator supports FME FFS file import. This means that any format that can be converted to FFS through FME can be translated to an Adobe Illustrator document.
Batch Import Into Adobe Illustrator Files/Templates: Import data into existing Adobe Illustrator documents with preconfigured styles applied on-the-fly using the auto-assign feature; fit the imported data to the page and to existing or new MAP Views (with FME Auto license for MAPublisher).

FME Workbench Writer Dataset

This is the pathname to an FFS file created by FME Workbench as temporary storage (to transfer the data to Adobe Illustrator). After the import process is complete, the filename can be safely reused by other writers.