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Compare a static trade show floor plan PDF with an interactive, live, searchable floor plan.",{"home":25,"compare":26,"page":27},"Home","Compare","ExpoFP vs PDF floor plans",{"badgeText":29,"headline":30,"subheadline":31,"ctaLabels":32,"bullets":36},"Comparison Guide","Interactive Floor Plan vs PDF Floor Plan for Trade Shows","Your PDF floor plan was correct when you exported it. An interactive floor plan stays correct after that.",[33,34,35],"Try ExpoFP Free","Book a Demo","See Pricing",[37,38],"Prepared by the ExpoFP product team","Last verified: {lastVerified}",{"stats":40},[41,43,46,48],{"value":42},"Free to start",{"value":44,"caption":45},"{trialDays}-day trial","No credit card",{"value":47},"DIY from {diyPrice}\u002Fmo",{"value":49,"caption":50},"No app needed","For attendees",[52,53,54,55,56,57],"Overview","Comparison","Costs","How to switch","FAQ","Related pages",{"heading":52,"lead":59,"paragraphs":60},"Every organizer knows the PDF floor plan, and there are good reasons for that. Anyone can open it. It looks the same on every screen and every printer, and it works as a single snapshot of the hall for a prospectus, a sponsorship deck or a sign by the registration desk. If you need one frozen picture of your layout, a PDF does that job well.",[61,62],"Problems start when the PDF has to be the live floor plan for the whole show. Then it gets emailed to exhibitors, uploaded to the event website, attached to the prospectus and printed for the entrance, and each copy goes stale the next time a booth sells, moves or gets merged. You re-export, re-upload and re-send. Exhibitors end up with \"floorplan_v7_FINAL_updated.pdf\" next to \"v8\", and many shows end up putting a \"Last updated\" date on the file and telling exhibitors to check it. Attendees pinch-zoom a large PDF on their phones and can't search for a company or get directions to a booth. Booth availability is only as current as the last time someone recolored the file.","This page is for organizers who **distribute a trade show floor plan PDF** and want to know what an **interactive floor plan vs a PDF** means in practice: what changes, what it costs, and when the PDF is still the right tool.",{"heading":64,"cards":65},"Quick verdict",[66,73],{"title":67,"items":68},"Keep using a PDF floor plan if",[69,70,71,72],"Your event is small, the layout is fixed weeks in advance and it rarely changes.","You don't sell booths online. Space is assigned privately and nobody needs live availability.","Attendees don't need search, filters or directions, because one glance at a printed sheet is enough.","You only need a printable handout or a page for the prospectus.",{"title":74,"items":75},"Switch to an interactive floor plan if",[76,77,78,79,80],"You resend the PDF more than a couple of times a season because booths keep changing.","Exhibitors ask \"is this the latest version?\" or \"is booth 412 still available?\"","You recolor sold booths by hand before each send-out.","Attendees mostly open the floor plan on their phones.","You want exhibitors to reserve and pay for booths themselves, and you want to sell sponsored placements on the map.",{"heading":82,"featureColumnLabel":83,"rows":84},"Feature-by-feature comparison","Feature",[85,92,99,106,113,120,127,134,141,148,155,162,169,176,183,190],{"title":86,"cells":87},"Purpose-built for event floor plans",[88,90],{"text":89},"Yes. An interactive floor plan platform for trade shows, expos, conferences and venues",{"text":91},"No. It's a document format: a static export from whatever tool drew the plan",{"title":93,"cells":94},"Drawing \u002F editing booths",[95,97],{"text":96},"FP Designer: drag, drop, merge and resize booths in the browser",{"text":98},"Edit in the source tool (CAD, design or office software), then re-export",{"title":100,"cells":101},"Import an existing plan",[102,104],{"text":103},"Upload your current PDF\u002Fimage and the ExpoFP team builds it, or draw it yourself in FP Designer",{"text":105},"The PDF is the plan, with no data behind the shapes",{"title":107,"cells":108},"Live booth availability",[109,111],{"text":110},"Exhibitors see live availability on the map",{"text":112},"Only as current as the last manual recolor and re-export",{"title":114,"cells":115},"Booth reservations",[116,118],{"text":117},"Exhibitors reserve directly on the map; organizer approves and tracks in one place",{"text":119},"By email or phone, cross-checked against a separate list",{"title":121,"cells":122},"Online booth payments",[123,125],{"text":124},"Exhibitors can purchase by credit card on the map (payments option; not on Light plan)",{"text":126},"Not possible; invoicing happens elsewhere",{"title":128,"cells":129},"Exhibitor profiles & directory",[130,132],{"text":131},"Each booth links to the company's logo, description and contacts",{"text":133},"Booth numbers and names only, usually with a separate exhibitor list",{"title":135,"cells":136},"Exhibitor self-service updates",[137,139],{"text":138},"Personal auto-login link; exhibitors edit their profile and the organizer approves",{"text":140},"Exhibitors email corrections; you edit and re-export",{"title":142,"cells":143},"Attendee search & filters",[144,146],{"text":145},"Search by company, booth or category; category filters; bookmarks",{"text":147},"Ctrl+F at best, and only if the PDF text is selectable",{"title":149,"cells":150},"Wayfinding \u002F routes",[151,153],{"text":152},"Turn-by-turn digital wayfinding, accessible routes across floors and buildings",{"text":154},"None. 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The cost is staff time spent on updates",{"heading":198,"paragraphs":199},"What the old workflow really costs",[200,201,202],"A PDF costs nothing to make, so its cost shows up as staff time. A typical season goes like this. The layout is drawn in a CAD or design tool and exported to PDF. Sold booths get colored in by hand, and the file is emailed to the exhibitor list, posted on the website and attached to the prospectus. Then a booth sells, or two get merged, or an exhibitor asks for the corner spot. You change the drawing, recolor, re-export, re-upload and re-send. Soon there are several versions in circulation and nobody knows which one is current.","The risk is bigger than inconvenience. When sales staff work from different versions of the file, the same stand can be promised twice. Organizers who have dealt with this describe stands sold twice because of version-control issues and rebooking sessions run on printouts and guesswork. Exhibitors then turn up onsite holding the preliminary plan from the prospectus, which no longer matches the hall.","Onsite, the printed maps were finalized days before doors opened and miss the last-minute moves. Attendees can't search a printed sheet or a PDF for \"packaging suppliers\" or \"booth 2140\", so they ask staff or wander the aisles. Exhibitors who paid for the show then get less traffic than they should.",{"heading":204,"columnLabels":205,"rows":209},"Before vs after",[206,207,208],"Step","Before","After",[210,214,218,222,226],{"title":211,"before":212,"after":213},"Booth sold","Recolor the PDF, re-export, re-email everyone.","The booth shows as taken on the live map the moment it's reserved.",{"title":215,"before":216,"after":217},"Layout change","Edit the source drawing, re-export, replace files on the website.","Drag or merge booths in FP Designer and the change goes live instantly.",{"title":219,"before":220,"after":221},"Exhibitor wants to update their listing","They email you, you edit and re-publish.","They use their personal auto-login link and you approve.",{"title":223,"before":224,"after":225},"Attendee looking for a company","Zoom around a PDF on a phone.","Search by company, booth or category and follow turn-by-turn directions.",{"title":227,"before":228,"after":229},"Show day","Printed maps that are already out of date.","The same live map on phones and on kiosks with \"you are here\" and offline mode.",{"heading":231,"paragraph":232,"buttonLabels":233},"Stop re-sending the floor plan.","Upload your current PDF and see it as a live, searchable map.",[33,34],{"heading":235,"steps":236},"How to move from a PDF floor plan to ExpoFP",[237,240,243,246,249],{"title":238,"text":239},"Start from the PDF you already have","Your current floor plan PDF or image is enough to get started. You don't need a new drawing.",{"title":241,"text":242},"Upload it or draw it","Upload the file and have the ExpoFP team build the interactive plan (Light, Standard and Pro plans), or trace it yourself in the drag-and-drop FP Designer (DIY plan).",{"title":244,"text":245},"Add exhibitors","Connect your registration, ticketing or CRM system so exhibitor data flows both ways, or send exhibitors their auto-login links to fill in logos, descriptions and contacts.",{"title":247,"text":248},"Open booth sales","Turn on booth reservations (included on DIY, Standard and Pro) so exhibitors see live availability and can reserve or pay on the map.",{"title":250,"text":251},"Share one link everywhere","Replace the PDF download with your yourevent.expofp.com link, embed the map on your website or event app, and use it on onsite kiosks. Next year, copy the map and exhibitors to the new event.",{"heading":253,"paragraphs":254},"When a PDF floor plan is still the right choice",[255],"A PDF is still the right format for a fixed snapshot. Examples include the layout page in a printed prospectus, a plan submitted to the venue or fire marshal, a sign on an easel by the entrance, or a one-off internal meeting where nothing is for sale and nothing will change. Many organizers keep producing a PDF for these purposes and use an interactive floor plan as the live version that exhibitors and attendees actually use. Done that way, the PDF becomes one output of the plan rather than the plan itself.",{"heading":56,"items":257},[258,261,264,267,270,273],{"question":259,"answer":260},"What is the difference between an interactive floor plan and a PDF floor plan?","A PDF floor plan is a static picture of the layout at the moment it was exported. An interactive floor plan is a live web map: booths are clickable and linked to exhibitor profiles, availability updates as booths sell, and attendees can search, filter and get directions. With ExpoFP, changes made in the editor go live instantly for everyone using the link.",{"question":262,"answer":263},"Can I turn my existing trade show floor plan PDF into an interactive map?","Yes. You can upload your existing floor plan PDF or image and have the ExpoFP team build the interactive version, or recreate it yourself in FP Designer on the DIY plan. Your PDF doesn't need to be a CAD file. A clear image of the layout is a starting point.",{"question":265,"answer":266},"Do attendees need to download an app?","No. ExpoFP floor plans run in the browser and are mobile-ready, with no app download and no sign-in. Attendees open a link or scan a QR code and can search by company, booth or category and get turn-by-turn directions.",{"question":268,"answer":269},"Can exhibitors book booths on the floor plan instead of emailing us?","Yes, on plans that include booth reservations (DIY, Standard and Pro). Exhibitors see live availability and reserve, or purchase by credit card if you enable payment collection, directly on the map. You approve and track reservations in one place, which removes the \"is this booth still free?\" emails.",{"question":271,"answer":272},"How much does an interactive floor plan cost compared with a PDF?","A PDF is effectively free to produce, and its cost is the staff time spent re-exporting, re-sending and answering questions. ExpoFP is free to start with a {trialDays}-day trial (no credit card), the DIY plan is {diyPrice}\u002Fmonth, and done-for-you plans start at {lightPrice} one-time. Prices shown are for up to 100 booths and scale with booth count; see the pricing page for your show size.",{"question":274,"answer":275},"Can we still print a floor plan for onsite use?","Yes. Many shows keep a printed map for the entrance or the show guide. The difference is that the live interactive map becomes the main version, shown on attendees' phones and on onsite kiosks, which support \"you are here\" and full offline mode. Last-minute changes reach attendees even after the print run.",{"heading":57,"items":277},[278,281,284,287,290,293],{"title":279,"linkLabel":280},"Compare ExpoFP","Browse comparisons",{"title":282,"linkLabel":283},"ExpoFP alternatives","Read the guide",{"title":285,"linkLabel":286},"Pricing","See pricing",{"title":288,"linkLabel":289},"Exhibition floor plan software","Learn more",{"title":291,"linkLabel":292},"ExpoFP vs spreadsheets for booth sales","Read the comparison",{"title":294,"linkLabel":292},"ExpoFP vs AutoCAD",{"heading":296,"paragraph":297,"buttonLabels":298},"Your floor plan, live in one link.","Trusted by 1,000+ trade shows and expos in 50+ countries.",[33,34,35],{"heading":300,"body":301},"Disclaimer","Information on this page is based on publicly available product materials and may change over time. PDF is a file format maintained as an open standard; Adobe and Acrobat are trademarks of their respective owner. 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