shrug-l: Exporting ArcMap document for use in Adobe

Kyle Schaper kyle.schaper at gmail.com
Wed Jul 25 11:54:04 EDT 2007


Nonie -

I feel your pain.  How absolutely ridiculous is it that you cannot move
labels at all until you convert to annotation... Correct me if I am wrong,
but once converted, labels are no longer referencing an attribute table,
which from time to time gets updated, especially when the labels are acre
calcs for example.  This means you have to delete them all and start over,
hand placing them one by one again when in reality you may only need to move
a few or only a few were updated.  Your only solution from ESRI is to
purchase another extension- maplex, or drop thousands for ArcInfo.  What a
great way to appease the customer.

Aside from the rant, I am with Casey in that we export to PDF and open that
up in Illustrator.  This is a terrible workflow that forces most work done
to have to be re-done if map scale is changed or new layers are added, which
is why we only take that route sparingly.  Most of the time we put up with
the mediocre at best graphic abilities that Arc has.  (What a pitiful lack
of transparency handling --- c'mon!)

I have not heard of/tried of Avenza --- thanks for the tip!

Kyle Schaper
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