ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud Blog

ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud will be deprecating the Legacy mapping profile setting with the October 2024 release. Read the blog to learn more. 

ArcGIS 10.6 and 10.6.1 (Desktop (ArcMap) and Enterprise) will be RETIRED on January 1, 2024.

Please refer to the Product Life Cycle on the Esri Support site.

Enterprise PLC - https://support.esri.com/en-us/products/arcgis-enterprise/life-cycle

ArcMap PLC - https://support.esri.com/en-us/products/arcmap/life-cycle

Exciting news! ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud is now available on the  Adobe Exchange Marketplace!

The latest update (version 3.6) of ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud was released today. This update includes significant enhancements, bug fixes, and new tools to explore. Below is a summary. For more details, see this blog article. 

New features and enhancements

• Support Adobe Illustrator 2024 and Adobe Photoshop 2024.
• Filter search results by authoritative status or hide deprecated layers, when adding map data.
• Access layer detailed description and source information from the Contents pane.
• Make a chart in ArcGIS Pro, and edit it in Illustrator. If your ArcGIS Pro project includes charts, such as line, histogram, or pie charts, they are now processed as editable vector layers when you export to AIX
• ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud is now available to download on Adobe Exchange in the Adobe Creative Cloud Marketplace (in addition to the Esri website). 

Bug fixes

• BUG-000152999 Fixed a bug that prevented you from adding custom basemaps in disconnected environments.
• Fixed a bug that splits legend and label ligatures into individual characters.
• Fixed a bug that caused data added from the extension to not be cropped to the map extent

We encourage you to download and upgrade to this latest version at your earliest convenience. (See Requirements for supported versions of Adobe apps.) We appreciate this community’s support and feedback and look forward to staying engaged to continue improving Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud.

Sincerely,

ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud team

Hello, Maps for Adobe Community,

Adobe Creative Cloud 2024 releases went public yesterday at the Adobe MAX conference. The new releases are not compatible with the current version of ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud 3.5, which was released in August 2023. We are currently working on a new update of the application to support the latest Illustrator and Photoshop. The update will be available very soon. To avoid disruption to your map-making work here is what you can do: 

• Maps for Adobe users are recommended to keep their previous version of Illustrator or Photoshop when upgrading to Illustrator 2024 or Photoshop 2024.
• If upgraded without keeping previous versions of Illustrator or Photoshop accidentally, and need to work with Maps for Adobe, then you are suggested to install a previous version using the steps outlined here and then reinstall Maps for Adobe afterward to continue work. 

Thank you for your patience.

Xingdong

Maps for Adobe Team

We have an important update. On December 31, 2023, we will be closing the @mapsforadobe X (Twitter) account and transitioning to @ArcGISApps. We understand this may come as a surprise, however, we want to assure you that this decision has been made to streamline our communication efforts and provide you with more consistent content updates through our primary Esri account.

The August 2023 update for Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud includes new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to improve your workflows for making maps with ArcGIS and Adobe apps.

ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud at the 2023 Esri User Conference.

The March 2023 update for Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud include many key enhancement and stability fixes to improve your workflows for making maps with ArcGIS and Adobe apps.

Hello, Maps for Adobe Community,

We have received intermittent reports from users about an issue when using Maps for Adobe extension to open an AIX file exported from ArcGIS Pro or to sync a map directly from the extension. When the issue occurs, users receive a blank document in Illustrator. Our team is actively working with Adobe to investigate the cause of this problem and will post updates when we have any. While a solution has not been made yet, we would like to share some information that might help you work around the problem.

Environment: Illustrator 2023 (v27.2 and above) on Windows or macOS.

Symptom: A blank file opened in Illustrator when you open an AIX file or sync a map from the extension.

Workaround: Use a version of Illustrator prior to 2023 (v27.2). We observe consistent results on Illustrator long-term support version 2022 (v26.5.2)

Steps: 

1. Uninstall ArcGIS Maps for Adobe from your machine
2. Install an earlier version of Illustrator, e.g. Illustrator's long-term support version 2022 (v26.5.2) (you can run multiple versions of Illustrator).
3. Download the latest version of ArcGIS Maps for Adobe from the Esri product page and reinstall the extension

(Optional): Once you successfully open the AIX file or sync a map in Illustrator 2022 (v26.5.2), you can save it as an AI file. open the file in your preferred version of Illustrator, and continue your design work there.

Sorry for the inconvenience. We will keep you updated when we have more info. 

Maps for Adobe Team