DDP labels shifted after export to PDF

Anonymous User

Original User: alnesbit

Hello all,

Hope I got the right forum. I am using 10.1 and maplex labeling. I have found that when I go to export data driven pages from a congested area of my map the labels might look fine on my screen and do not overlap but once I open up the PDF after it has exported the labels are overlapping. What you see is not what you get. I'm going to attach a screen shot and a PDF. This is annoying, frustrating, and a waste of time as I never know what I'm going to get and have to look at the PDF to see that I need to make adjustments to my label properties for this one page. Or I break the DDP and export this one page. Or I export this one page with labels locked. Then use a third-party software to merge my PDF pages into one PDF.

Can someone from ESRI confirm and has anyone else seen this problem?

Thank you,

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Anonymous User

Original User: jbarrette

Here is a response I got from one of our export specialist and they offer a possible solution.

Shifting on export is a longstanding problem. People tend to see it with more dramatic effect in their labels because a one pixel shift of one point relative to another can completely change how everything is labeled. The shift is usually a side effect of our reliance on windows GDI for graphics and rounding errors in the integer math we must use there. This can sometimes be mitigated by changing the default printer on the machine to be a laser printer instead of no printer or instead of the XPS document writer. Windows GDI uses the default printer during high resolution export operations like export to PDF, so increasing the resolution of the default printer can mitigate the shifts.

I hope this helps,
Jeff