{"id":38,"date":"2018-03-26T09:59:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T16:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/dif\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2018-05-23T12:49:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T19:49:01","slug":"adobe-illustrator-import-shape-files","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/dif\/case-studies-tutorials\/adobe-illustrator-import-shape-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Illustrator: convert and import shape files"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Map resources (shape files):<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrcan.gc.ca\/earth-sciences\/geography\/topographic-information\/maps\/9765\">National Topographic System (NTS) Index Maps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ftp.geogratis.gc.ca\/pub\/nrcan_rncan\/vector\/canvec\/archive\/canvec_archive_20130515\/50k_shp\/\">Shape Files (based on NTS index)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How to convert and import shape files into Adobe Illustrator:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>create a new map in ArcMap<\/li>\n<li>add new layers, using a shape file downloaded from the links above (connect your folder first, if required)<\/li>\n<li>export the map into a format that you can use in Adobe Illustrator (ai, eps, pdf): File &gt; Export<\/li>\n<li>import that file into Adobe Illustrator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Map resources (shape files): National Topographic System (NTS) Index Maps Shape Files (based on NTS index) How to convert and import shape files into Adobe Illustrator: create a new map in ArcMap add new layers, using a shape file downloaded from the links above (connect your folder first, if required) export the map into a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/dif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/dif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/dif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/dif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/dif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/dif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/dif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/387"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/dif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.eas.ualberta.ca\/dif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}