MAPublisher 8.4: Import Basic Personal Geodatabase without ArcGIS installation

For many years, Esri has been promoting its geodatabase format. It is a great format that has many advantages over simpler formats and has seen many improvements and enhancements with each new version. We are pleased to announce that geodatabase feature classes can now be imported into Adobe Illustrator on both Windows and Mac using MAPublisher 8.4. Unlike the other geodatabase support feature within MAPublisher, this Basic Personal Geodatabase Reader does not require the installation of Esri ArcGIS products on the same computer because it uses a different import engine.

With MAPublisher 8.4, there are five different geodatabase import support features:

Geodatabase Support Features	File format	Supported Platforms
Basic ESRI ArcSDE Server
Basic Personal Geodatabase Reader	*.mdb
ESRI ArcSDE Geodatabase
ESRI File Geodatabase	*.gdb
ESRI Personal Geodatabase	*.mdb

Once a geodatabase (*.mdb) connection is established, all the feature classes available in it will be listed. Simply select the feature classes you wish to import. Like other geodatabase supported features, you can extract the dataset within the area of interest by using the Spatial Filter function available from the Select Tables dialog box.

Thank you all for sending us feature requests. If you have any feature requests with the future version of our products including MAPublisher, Geographic Imager, and PDF MAPs, please feel free to drop us a line at support@avenza.com. We will be happy to hear from you all! :)