[OKGIS] ARCREADER

[Brett Williston]

We have 3 mappers and I just want to be able buy one license of ArcPublisher instead of 3.

That way one employee could run the batch at the end of the week so our 4 appraisers could use ArcReaders to view our maps.

I should have made that more clear. My bad :-(


Respectfully,
Brett Williston
Systems Administrator
Rogers County Courthouse
219 S. Missouri 
Claremore, OK 74017
(918) 342-1362
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David W. Wheelock 
  To: Oklahoma GIS Community 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 10:27 AM
  Subject: RE: [OKGIS] ARCREADER


  Not that I'm aware of.  ESRI's not giving away the farm here.  I think you've got to buy Publisher to create the PMF's and the ESRI web site indicates the same thing.

  David



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  From: okgis-bounces at gis.gis.ou.edu [mailto:okgis-bounces at gis.gis.ou.edu] On Behalf Of Brett Williston
  Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 10:09 AM
  To: Oklahoma GIS Community
  Subject: Re: [OKGIS] ARCREADER


  Thanks everybody for the information!

  This group has been extremely helpful!

  Does anybody know of a batch file that has been written that would convert MXD to PMF?

  As stated before, we have 715 sections that we need to convert weekly.

  Respectfully,
  Brett Williston
  Systems Administrator
  Rogers County Courthouse
  219 S. Missouri 
  Claremore, OK 74017
  (918) 342-1362
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: David W. Wheelock 
    To: Oklahoma GIS Community 
    Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 8:35 AM
    Subject: RE: [OKGIS] ARCREADER


    Hi Brett,

    Oh yes.  ArcReader can directly read everything that ArcGIS can read, geodatabase, personal geodatabase, IMS services, shape files, event themes, tablular data, etc.  There may be something it can't read, but I haven't found it yet.  

    You don't have to publish any of the data to the PMF file unless you're intending it for external or public users who won't have access to it on your internal network.  Even then, if you were to use exclusively internet based data sources, for example, IMS services, you could still publish an ArcReader application for external users or the public without including any data in the PMF.  I've created quite a few ArcReader applications for internal users here at ODAFF and I've never needed to publish any data with it in the PMF, or wanted to.  They all read live data directly from the data source, whatever it is.

    ArcReader is really awesome.  It employs all of the cartographic functionality of ArcMap (Except for Maplex), so all of your symbolization, labeling and layout features appear exactly as in ArcMap.  And all you have to do is be able to create a map in ArcMap and click the Publish button on ArcGIS Publisher to do this.  You'd have to spend ages programming in ArcIMS to achieve something this slick.  I can create a new ArcReader application in just a few minutes.

    There are a couple of drawbacks.  ArcReader is just as slow as ArcMap, so if your map is slow in ArcMap, then it will be slow in ArcReader; whereas, properly tuned ArcIMS is really snappy.  Also, ArcReader must be installed on each user computer and all data source locations, including mapped drives and ODBC connections must be set up on each PC as well.

    For ODAFF, given the number of high quality cartographic applications I've been able to give to my users, and the volume of customized maps that they can print for themselves, the $2500 pricetag for ArcGIS Publisher is well worth the expense.

    I've gone beyond your original question, but it looked like you were asking an exploratory pre-purchase question and I just wanted to let you know my experience.

    Let me know if you have any other questions.

    David


    David Wheelock     Application Specialist     david at oda.state.ok.us 

    Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry
    2800 North Lincoln Boulevard
    Oklahoma City, OK 73105-4298
    Phone: (405) 522-5477 FAX: (405) 522-3590
    http://www.oda.state.ok.us 

    "We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves, 
    than by those which have occurred to others." 
    Pascal 




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    From: okgis-bounces at gis.gis.ou.edu [mailto:okgis-bounces at gis.gis.ou.edu] On Behalf Of Brett Williston
    Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 3:36 PM
    To: Oklahoma GIS Community
    Subject: [OKGIS] ARCREADER


    Can geodatabases be read by ArcReader without publishing them to .pmf format?

    Thanks in advance!

    Respectfully,
    Brett Williston
    Systems Administrator
    Rogers County Courthouse
    219 S. Missouri 
    Claremore, OK 74017
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