annotation feature class to shapefile

Question

Hi:

I used feature class to shapefile tool for my annotation layer and the the annotation's font, demension in shapefile are all messed up. Is there a better way to do this in python?  Thank you.

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Anonymous User · Answer

Original User: helenchu

Thank you.  I'll try.

ChristopherThompson · Answer

using feature class to feature class or feature class to shapefile, when we use labels feature to turn on the street names, they are all shown horizontally like you place a text, not follow along the street lines.

I just created a shapefile from an annotation, what i got back from that is a polygon shapefile where each polygon represents the extent of the annotation (the specific label).  In the attribute table there are a whole host of attributes including: TextString (contains the label information), FontName and Angle of the text.  If I convert the polygon shapefile to centroids, then I can control the angle of the text by using the value in the Angle field.  Now how you might be able to manipulate this in a script.. That depends on if arcpy.mapping has classes/functions for handling labeling - though it looks like the LabelClass class is pretty limited:http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#/LabelClass/00s30000002t000000/

One approach might be to create a layer file set up how you want things to work (a .lyr file stored on disk) and then reference that using arcpy.mapping.UpdateLayer to update how your annotation shapefile should appear.

Anonymous User · Answer

Original User: helenchu

1/ I need to provide to public those layers so I choose to ftp shapefiles to our site for public downloading.
2/Annotation:  using feature class to feature class or feature class to shapefile, when we use labels feature to turn on the street names, they are all shown horizontally like you place a text, not follow along the street lines.

I have scripts in addin that could achieve this thing by 2 steps: converting the anno feature class to "esriGeometryType.esriGeometryPolyline" first then covert shapefile.  But with vb.net scripts I ran into problem with another layer that joined with a sql table.  It did not pick up fields in joined table.  My goal is to convert all layers in 1 click either in python or  by an addin.

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