shrug-l: Exporting ArcMap document for use in Adobe

[Nonie Castro]

That is EXACTLY my point!

	"Dunno about you, but I seem to spend half my map production
time hand-placing labels."

Take a look at "What's new in 9.2". 
http://downloads.esri.com/support/whitepapers/ao_/Whats_New_In_ArcGIS_92
_march2007.pdf
 
How much of that has the same impact on YOUR day to day work life as
labels? 
Problem is - we (here) will just never, ever have that kind of time.
EVER. Not gonna happen. 
 



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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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