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><div style="width: 490px; position: absolute; visibility: hidden; z-index: 99999; text-align: left; top: 144px; left: 262px;" id="AnswersBalloon">
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