Hi, I have a challenging problem. I am creating maps to be printed for kiosks in about 30 land trust preserves. They want to use custom symbols on the maps for things like benches, parking, bridges, the kiosks, etc. I have loaded the symbols into the layer symbology. That works well. The problem is that the multiple features are often close together, e.g., a parking lot and a kiosk. So they overlap at the scale of the map. A custom map is being produced for each preserve. And since the size of the preserves varies greatly, so does the scale of the maps. I tried manipulating the size of the symbols. But that doesn't work well. It was suggested we move some features. But the varying scales of the maps makes that messy. And we really don't want to have to maintain one layer for cartographic purposes and another for the infrastructure inventory, where we want accurant locations. So I thought about putting an attribute in the table to correlate with a symbol character in a font. And use standard label conflict resolution to adjust the conflicts. That works quite well. But I have really struggled to find a way to get their custom symbols into a font. I thought callout labels would be another way to do that. But that would also require a way to link the custom symbols to features. Is there some other way to crack this nut? Thanks.
