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## Upload PNG to Wiki
 
## Upload PNG to Wiki
 
## Create a link to the PNG in your page, like this [[Image:MyStuff.png|50px]]. The '50px' patr will tell it to automatically display a tiny 50-pixel wide thumbnail.
 
## Create a link to the PNG in your page, like this [[Image:MyStuff.png|50px]]. The '50px' patr will tell it to automatically display a tiny 50-pixel wide thumbnail.
# Link from PNG back to PDF
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# Link from thumbnailed image back to original high-quality PDF
## When you click on the thumbnail, you'll be taken to the page for the full size PNG, which probably doesn't look as good as your full-size PDF. You can edit this page, and type a link to the PDF. This is not very neat. There's probably a better way.
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## When you click on the thumbnail, you'll be taken to the page for the full size PNG, which probably doesn't look as good as your full-size PDF. You can edit this page, and type a link to the PDF. This is not very neat. There's probably a better way. (Perhaps if you map the map in PNG first (with ArcMap), not PDF, the PNG might look as good as the PDF.)

Revision as of 07:47, 2 February 2009

There's probably many ways to do this, but here's some ideas, starting with ArcMap:

  1. Make map:
    1. From ArcMap, Print your Layout to an Adobe PDF file
  2. Upload map:
    1. Click 'Upload file' at left of wiki window. Upload file. Format and size is limited. After you upload it, the Wiki will tell you how to link to it.
  3. Link to your map:
    1. Edit the page where you want the map to be linked. Paste the link from above into the page.
  4. Create a thumbnail of your map
    1. Convert PDF to PNG (The Wiki automatically creates thumbnails from image files like PNG and JPG, but apparently not from PDF.). Open PDF, and Save As PNG.
    2. Shrink PNG file to less than 2MB (the current maximum file size), using something like PhotoShop.
    3. Upload PNG to Wiki
    4. Create a link to the PNG in your page, like this 50px. The '50px' patr will tell it to automatically display a tiny 50-pixel wide thumbnail.
  5. Link from thumbnailed image back to original high-quality PDF
    1. When you click on the thumbnail, you'll be taken to the page for the full size PNG, which probably doesn't look as good as your full-size PDF. You can edit this page, and type a link to the PDF. This is not very neat. There's probably a better way. (Perhaps if you map the map in PNG first (with ArcMap), not PDF, the PNG might look as good as the PDF.)