illustrator map to imagemap automatically? or is there a better way?

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liz picture liz · Sep 30, 2010 · Viewed 13.5k times · Source

I have a vector illustrator file with all the counties of California as distinct paths. I need to have these counties be links to other pages online. is there a way to automatically generate an HTML imagemap from this file? illustrator provides an export as a jpg function that has options for polygonal imagemap shapes, but it isn't working.

alternatively, do you have an opinion about the usage these days of imagemaps at all and whether I should approach this another way?

yes, I know I could do this in flash but I want to avoid that.

thanks!

Answer

LHMathies picture LHMathies · Apr 23, 2011

You can use the Attributes panel to set a link on each path, and then use Save for Web and Devices to save as HTML or HTML+Image -- that creates an imagemap in the HTML file.

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