shrug-l: Exporting ArcMap document for use in Adobe

[Sykes, John]

Tim:
 
Actually if you get into the label (especially using Maplex) you can use all
sorts of Visual Basic commands to format the label, put it on multiple lines,
round numbers in the label, etc.  It's really not that complicated either,
once you get use to it.
 

-- John 
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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 Tim Spivey
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 2:34 PM
To: shrug-l at lists.dep.state.fl.us
Subject: RE: shrug-l: Exporting ArcMap document for use in Adobe



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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