I think Sean H. had the right word choices for the problem. Control vs. Fiddle With Sure the current Pro system is great for the kind of map that gets thrown together and doesn't have 3 perfectionist managers with keen eyes reviewing it. Then fiddle all you want, who cares if the font is the right height. But for those of us that have to do a high level of cartography on "boring" things like legends, this system is cause for screaming! I need to be able to set controls on things like the font size, column breaks and even where a single theme breaks into the next column. The "Fitting Strategy" just makes it so I have to chose one function over the other, when both (or more) are necessary. These are the types of things that strongly impede migration. The work around? Multiple legend items...well as long as they aren't dynamically moving through a map series.
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