shrug-l: Exporting ArcMap document for use in Adobe

[Wolfe, Heather]

Try saving as an annotation feature class instead of in the map when you convert from labels. This is most useful when you are making thesame annotation again and again. This kind of dynamic annotation moves with the map (also try putting your annotation in in data view instead of layout view- same idea). To stop the redraw, try clicking in the bottom left hand corner of your view window- there is a little button that looks like a " that means "pause drawing". Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.


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From: Bret Whiteley [mailto:bwhiteley at ecdflorida.com]
Sent: Wed 7/25/2007 3:06 PM
To: 'Sykes, John'; 'Tim Spivey'; shrug-l at lists.dep.state.fl.us
Subject: RE: shrug-l: Exporting ArcMap document for use in Adobe



Shruggers,

 

I too am often forced to convert labels to annotation and then drag them to their exact desired locations.  If you have a map with multiple layers that takes time to draw, each time you move an annotated label, the map will redraw - which is very very painful and makes the simple task take forever.  You could of course turn the other layers or annotations off - but then you run the risk of moving the annotation ontop of a feature you would want to be visible.  Any clues how to stop this redraw each time you touch an anno?  You should be able to freeze the map view, or screen view - which probably can be done!?

 

Bret.

 

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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 Sykes, John
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 2:56 PM
To: Tim Spivey; shrug-l at lists.dep.state.fl.us
Subject: RE: shrug-l: Exporting ArcMap document for use in Adobe

 

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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