Rotate polygon fills in Legend to match Data Frame rotation
If you have a data frame that is rotated, the symbols in the legend for polygons with line and pattern fills don't rotate in the Legend. The solution ESRI suggests is to convert the legend to graphics and individually convert each polygon symbol. Thanks for the time saving suggestion ESRI.
@MichaelAugust 9 years later, not fixed. "Pro" 3.0.2. 🤦🏼:male_sign:
What I really don't like about this is that you have to go manually add the rotation of your map to each individual symbol class. In my opinion, they should be relative to the rotation of your map -- in other words, a hatch with a 45-degree angle should appear on the map at a 45-degree angle, rather than 45-degrees to north, or whatever it does. Further, the rotation fields in the panes don't seem to support decimals, but the data frame does, so you can't really get things to match up properly, even when you go and manually change each symbol.
Ok, here's another inconsistency: with labeling, those appear in relation to the map orientation, so why would symbology be different? Here, I have address labels set to either 90 or 180, and they appear at those angles in relation to the data frame/page -- which is desired. Symbology should do the same thing.
To make things more confusing, when converting your labels to annotation, THEN they suddenly have a rotation, and appear in a crooked box angled to north rather than your map.
Even more issues - this is what an 'align right' for my annotation features looks like:
They're aligning to a random north-south meridan rather than 'right.'