arcpy.mapping: ExportToTIFF() creates invalid output

Question

Hello,

I did indeed search for any other posts on this and saw none, apologies if this is incorrect.  I have installed ArcGIS10 on my secondary machine to test functions which should help with a milestone deliverable in the next week, particularly batching the exports (I'm much better at python than C#).  While ExportToPDF() appears to work fine, the preferred TIFF export function produces a small file which is not recognized by Windows XP or by IDL 7.1.  I'm running a python distribution by ActiveState (2.6.5) with the latest numpy installed prior to receiving ArcGIS 10. Syntax was:

arcpy.mapping.ExportToTIFF(kmxd, kpath+"\test1.tif", resolution=300)

where kmxd is a valid MapDocument object and kpath is a valid path to a directory.  The output file for a tabloid mxd is only around 122000 bytes rather than the ~50MB expected for an uncompressed file at this resolution. The same arguments passed to ExportToJPEG() appears to work fine; however for vector graphics we do not like JPG.

Has anyone else seen this problem?

Thanks,
Kelly Crowell

JeffreyBarrette · Answer

The original issue with exporting to TIFF creating the same output regardless of compression type will be fixed for service pack 3.

DanielSattler · Answer

Can someone tell me why am I getting an error? error is marked in red.

import arcpy  
... mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(r"C:\Project\G_1.mxd")  
... arcpy.mapping.ExportToTIFF(mxd, r"C:\Project\Output\Project.tif", resolution=300, tiff_compression="NONE")  
... del mxd  
...

Runtime error <type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>: PageLayoutObject: Error in executing ExportToTIFF

Did you find an answer to this? I have the same message when Exporting to PDF.

Also, you know if there is a way to do a batch export of MXDs to PDFs?

SabitaTripathi · Answer

Can someone tell me why am I getting an error? error is marked in red.

import arcpy
... mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(r"C:\Project\G_1.mxd")
... arcpy.mapping.ExportToTIFF(mxd, r"C:\Project\Output\Project.tif", resolution=300, tiff_compression="NONE")
... del mxd
...

Runtime error <type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>: PageLayoutObject: Error in executing ExportToTIFF