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It's BINARY, that's for sure. What, you were expecting ArcXML?  
It's BINARY, that's for sure. What, you were expecting ArcXML?  
 
No -- you must be thinking about [[ArcExplorer]].
Figures.
 
Arc Publisher is not a very advanced application,
if you can reverse engineer the PMF format, happy days.

Latest revision as of 00:33, 24 September 2005

Launch ArcMap and open a project.

Enable this extension in ArcMap then turn on the toolbar for it.

When you "publish" a map, it will create a file with the extension .pmf which is associated with ArcReader.

Given that this could be a dandy way to distribute a map with software and all that, is the ArcReader file format proprietary?

It's BINARY, that's for sure. What, you were expecting ArcXML? No -- you must be thinking about ArcExplorer.