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<P>Here's another groan for everyone. Even if you have ArcInfo (as I am lucky to
have), most of the best cartographic features only work with a Personal
Geodatabase. So if you have an Enterprise Geodatabase (whether or not you have
edit permissions - which I don't have) or maintain your best stuff as shapefiles
(which our GIS gurus want for data to be entered into the Enterprise
Geodatabase) the cartographic features so highly touted by ESRI DON'T
WORK!!!</P>
<P>Maplex does work but your right about moving labels around. It would be best
if the hook to the feature stayed fixed but your could "rubber band" the text,
etc. the way the balloon annotation works.</P></DIV><!-- Converted from text/rtf format -->
<P><B><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Brush Script MT" size=6>--
John</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN>
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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>Tripp
Corbin<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 25, 2007 12:00 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Kyle
Schaper; shrug-l@lists.dep.state.fl.us<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: shrug-l: Exporting
ArcMap document for use in Adobe<BR></FONT><BR></P>
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<DIV><SPAN class=656425815-25072007><FONT face=Arial>Kyle,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=656425815-25072007><FONT face=Arial>There is feature linked
annotation which you can use in a Geodatabase. It is linked to the attribute
table much like labels and you can control them on a individual basis. The main
problem with feature linked anno is that while ArcView can display and print
feature linked anno, it will not edit it. You must have ArcEditor or ArcInfo for
that. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px" align=left>Tripp Corbin, MCP,
CFM, GISP</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px" align=left>Associate Vice
President, GIS/Mapping</P>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><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><BR></FONT></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></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>