Working with Geospatial PDFs
Express Server supports Geospatial PDFs as source imagery. Some things that it would be good to keep in mind when using Geospatial PDFs are:
- Express Server rasterizes and delivers all layers of Geospatial PDF catalogs.
- If a Geospatial PDF has a border it is included .
- Geospatial PDFs can take a long time to deliver across networks. It is recommended that you optimize your Geospatial PDF catalogs (see below) so they will take less time for users to view.
- If you are going to work with Geospatial PDFs regularly, we recommend that you use the 64-bit version of Express Server.
Optimizing PDFs
Express Server supports Geospatial PDF as a source format. Delivery performance can suffer when image data is served from PDFs, so Express Server enables you to optimize them for delivery. Because optimizing PDFs can take some time, Express Server does not do this automatically. However, you can optimize your PDFs any time.
To optimize PDFs:
- Open the Express Server Manager (see Accessing the Express Server Manager).
- Click Catalogs on the top navigation bar, then select a catalog in the list.
- Select Basic on the left-hand navigation, then click Edit.
- Click Optimize PDFs. An indexing process begins, during which time no edits may be made. Note: You do not have to click "Save" in this case. If there are unsaved edits on this tab, they are saved when you click the button.
- If you have no further settings to edit, click Publish.
NOTE: If you add PDFs to a catalog whose other PDFs have already been optimized, the new PDFs are not automatically optimized. If you wish the new files to be optimized you must run the optimize process on that catalog again.