shrug-l: Exporting ArcMap document for use in Adobe

[Tim Spivey]

At the risk of preaching to the choir here, with some knowledge of VB
scripting in ArcMap/Editor/Info, you can get a bit more creative with
label placement - but I don't claim to have that knowledge, only access
to the online ESRI user forum and folks who know some of the solutions.
For example, you can force labels into two lines of text rather than
just one.
 
Dunno about you, but I seem to spend half my map production time
hand-placing labels.
 
Tim
Tift County GA

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From: shrug-l-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us
[mailto:shrug-l-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] On Behalf Of Kyle Schaper
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 11:54 AM
To: shrug-l at lists.dep.state.fl.us
Subject: RE: shrug-l: Exporting ArcMap document for use in Adobe


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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