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Extract a footprint from each ArcMap's layout view into polygon ?

DEAF_PROBERT_68

I have a several maps that are almost in the same extent area and they are in mxd. Is there a way for me to get them into footprints from each ArcMap Layout view .

The reason I am asking is because i am working on a few "highlight" of the roads that I am putting them into these ArcMap and they are closer to each other. It will be hard for me to put them in all of them and they may not show up or not. The highlights are not spread out and are sort of cluster to each other and they might be smaller area. So what I want to do is to run and get a results from each ArcMap and then output them into polygon. This way I can put the "highlight" shapefiles to show me which ArcMap that I can put them there. It will save me a lot of time.

I have one map that is overview of the area and then I have several of them that are break down into smaller areas of Interest. These maps are part of the Kiosk maps and are put up the wall that are spread out in the area.

It has no raster in it and just mostly layers that are in polygon, points, annotation and lines.

I think someone mention this somewhere but I am not sure about that for the Non-raster side.

P.S. Much similiar to XTools's Extract Map but I really don't need it. It takes out from the shapefiles into a new folder....

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ChrisDonohue__GISP

I've also run into this issue in the past of needing to capture the layout extents and had not found an easy automated solution. In the past when there are just a few mxds to capture the layout extent I've just ended up buckling down and digitizing the extents as polygons while in layout view. If there is not currently a solution, this could be a fallback. Painful, but it doesn't take that long.

Chris Donohue, GISP

DEAF_PROBERT_68

Ok so you can see these shapefiles I have worked on...These are the green lines are highlight . Here is the screenshot...

Now , I had many PDF files that I sent to from PDF to TIFF conversion to see where these green lines are in....

Now you can see why I was trying to figure it out to find where are the green lines are in the footprint... You can look it up where they are in the maps that I need to pull out and put them in the right map. So, the footprint is where each PDF that was exported

I don't know what is the other way around to do this so this is only way I could do .

So in using the Select Layer by Location Batch and it gave me 17 of Kiosk maps that the green highlight was located in.

AdrianWelsh

Cool, I'll be curious to see what you come up with.

DEAF_PROBERT_68

No I have figured it out and I will post it once I am done with it. I have about 20 of them and so far I have run 7.

Stay tuned.

AdrianWelsh

Hi Robert,

Would making a Map Book, or Data Driven Pages, serve as a solution to your dilemma?

What are Data Driven Pages?—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop

Creating Data Driven Pages—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop

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