Create multi-page map book PDF using a grid

Use a BoundingBoxAccumulator to extract the total extent. Boundsextractor to aquire x_min, x_max etc.

 

Use a 2DGridAccumulator, use parameters or attributes to set number of rows/coluns.

 

 

If you want the pages to be A3,A4 etc. and fit neatly on the output pages, then create number of rows and columns based on extent devided by the page sizes. (mostly you will end up with some overlap).

 

You can round this and then recreate the grid by calculating pagesize ratio (for A0,A1 etc. this is always the same ) to total heigth and width.

 

 

 

Add any attribute you want to use in the map-driven pages to this grid.

 

 

Also you must have all feature layer have common ID (for instance the pagenumber).

 

So you must also overlay the grid on your features in order to use MapBook DefinitionLayer. (if you wish to use this function in Arcmap that is)

 

 

Use this as an extentlayer in ArcMap. I mostly call it "extent"  ....creative indeed...;)

Tiler is indeed one way to do it.

 

You can use the tiler with the same settings you use on the 2DGridAccumulator.

 

This will take care of the common ID for the DefinitionQuery as well.

 

 

 

If you don't want to chop up the objects, you use a spatialrelator. Extentframe and DefinitionQuery in Arcmap will take care to show only the objects on the page selected. (i prefer that proces mostly, i never use the Tiler. No reason in particular though..))

I am not using ArcMap in this case.  I'd like to use only FME to create the multi-page PDF document - each page corresponding to a grid square.

If you use fme the you must use Boundsextractor on the grids. Each set must be used to set the attributes "pdf_world_rectangle" and "pdf_frame_rectangle" (this las tone includes pagemarge, header- footnote space etc.)

 

These must have same aspect ratio.

 

 

In the proces you must create datagrid and reserve space for it, if you intend to use one.

 

Space for titles, vectorgrpahics, like a logo.

 

 

For layers you use, you can set controls like: pdf_feature_order.

 

The styling can alos be controled this way. But in 2014 there is a pdf-styler transfomer.

 

 

I made a pdf writer that does all that and creates pdf books from inoutdata.

 

It is big, and somewhat complex. .

 

 

I used the fme readers and writers pdf section to figure it out. Im gith rebuild it to 2014 transformers someday soon. Improved ArcMap funcionality on mapbook export demotivated that somewhat..;)

 

Good luck with building it.

 

 

 

I have not tried it in 2014.