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class=585362718-25072007>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
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class=585362718-25072007>Dunno about you, but I seem to spend half my map
production time hand-placing labels.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=585362718-25072007>Tim</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=585362718-25072007>Tift County GA</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> shrug-l-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us
[mailto:shrug-l-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Kyle
Schaper<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 25, 2007 11:54 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
shrug-l@lists.dep.state.fl.us<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: shrug-l: Exporting ArcMap
document for use in Adobe<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Nonie -<BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>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!) <BR><BR>I have not heard of/tried of Avenza
--- thanks for the tip!<BR><BR>Kyle Schaper<BR>
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