https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/is-it-possible-to-trace-the-lines-in-a-vector-pdf/m-p/1698850#M102972 <P>It appears when you bring the pdf in it flattens everything to a raster...no snapping.</P> Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:50:36 GMT Neal_t_k 2026-04-28T20:50:36Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/is-it-possible-to-trace-the-lines-in-a-vector-pdf/m-p/1698000#M102910 <P>Asking for a friend (literally... a colleague asked me this yesterday and I had no idea): does Pro have a tool or workflow that allows users to easily trace lines in a vector PDF? She said it is easily accomplished in Trimble software.</P><P>I'm not talking about feature extraction... just tracing similar to how we can trace line and polygon features using the trace tool.</P><P>Thanks!</P> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:19:15 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/is-it-possible-to-trace-the-lines-in-a-vector-pdf/m-p/1698000#M102910 HollyTorpey_LSA 2026-04-23T16:19:15Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/is-it-possible-to-trace-the-lines-in-a-vector-pdf/m-p/1698008#M102912 <P>If it is a vector PDF, you can add it directly to your map and use the same trace tools you mentioned, you would just need a target feature class to hold the traces.&nbsp; If it is not a vector pdf, you can convert to a tiff, georefence the image and then trace the shapes.</P><P><A href="https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/tracing-polygons-to-create-feature-classes-from-a/td-p/1379439" target="_blank">Tracing polygons to create feature classes from a ... - Esri Community </A></P><P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:50:34 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/is-it-possible-to-trace-the-lines-in-a-vector-pdf/m-p/1698008#M102912 Neal_t_k 2026-04-23T16:50:34Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/is-it-possible-to-trace-the-lines-in-a-vector-pdf/m-p/1698569#M102943 <P>I know you said not feature extraction but are two new tools coming in ArcGIS Pro 3.7 that will do this workflow.&nbsp; See&nbsp;<A href="https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/raster-to-polyline-extraction/td-p/1689753" target="_blank">Raster to polyline extraction - Esri Community</A>&nbsp;for details.</P> Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:17:33 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/is-it-possible-to-trace-the-lines-in-a-vector-pdf/m-p/1698569#M102943 Robert_LeClair 2026-04-27T16:17:33Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/is-it-possible-to-trace-the-lines-in-a-vector-pdf/m-p/1698822#M102965 <P>Yes, I went to a session about those at the Dev Summit. They look cool but in this case I just want to be able to snap to the lines in the vector PDF. Thanks!</P> Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:00:34 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/is-it-possible-to-trace-the-lines-in-a-vector-pdf/m-p/1698822#M102965 HollyTorpey_LSA 2026-04-28T19:00:34Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/is-it-possible-to-trace-the-lines-in-a-vector-pdf/m-p/1698825#M102966 <P><a href="https://community.esri.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/763693">@Neal_t_k</a>&nbsp;So if it's a vector PDF, the trace tool can snap to the lines in the PDF as if it were a feature class?&nbsp;</P> Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:02:23 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/is-it-possible-to-trace-the-lines-in-a-vector-pdf/m-p/1698825#M102966 HollyTorpey_LSA 2026-04-28T19:02:23Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/is-it-possible-to-trace-the-lines-in-a-vector-pdf/m-p/1698850#M102972 <P>It appears when you bring the pdf in it flattens everything to a raster...no snapping.</P> Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:50:36 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/is-it-possible-to-trace-the-lines-in-a-vector-pdf/m-p/1698850#M102972 Neal_t_k 2026-04-28T20:50:36Z