PDF Embeddable Map?

Question

Probably a stupid question...

BUT... I'm gonna ask it anyway.

As the average web-map is just HTML/Javascript it makes me wonder. Would it be possible to embed one of these web maps using the Javascript API from ESRI inside of a PDF? I know there are 'Office Tools' from ESRI that let you do similar... but, what about PDF?

I am thinking that these Storymaps would be MUCH more amazing inside of a PDF.

Just a quick (probably stupid) question.

oevans_storymaps · Answer

If there is a 3rd party tool then I assume the way to do this would be to use a standard HTML iframe to embed the story map app like what you see below. When embedding on a web page you can use typical iframe parameters like width, height, frameborder, etc. to specify the size and appearance of the iframe, if the tool supports that. I'd be interested to hear if anyone gets this to work, so please post back here if you do. Owen

ChrisSergent · Answer

I'm not sure you can either, but there is an interesting tool here: http://www.jqueryrain.com/2012/09/best-jquery-pdf-viewer-plugin-examples/  called JavaScript PDF Reader that you might want to check out. At the time it was written, it was an HTML5 experiment. And here is the github site: PDF.js

oevans_storymaps · Answer

Hi Brian,

I did a quick web search and didn't find any information on ways to embed HTML/JS or other dynamic content inside a PDF, so I don't think this is possible.

If you know of a way to do this, please post details here and I can investigate further.

Owen