Latest Contributions by GeoffChapman

I am having some issues with the exporting to Production PDF of annotation that uses character spacing from ArcMap 10.7.1. We have a number of Annotation objects that use Character spacing to lay them out over large geographical features and have generated masking polygons using the Feature Outline Masks tool to help manage any conflicts with any highways or drainage the text my come across. As can be seen from Screenshot_1, the masking polygons and the annotation line up quite nicely in ArcMap. However, when we export the page to a Production PDF the Annotation is shifting and no longer lines up with the masking that is being created (see Screenshot_2). The issue appears to only affect annotation that has character spacing applied to it. I did find the following technical support document (Problem: Specified character spacing is not preserved when exporting to PDF with ArcMap 10.5.1 ) but this does not make any mention of 10.7.1. In addition to which we have hundreds of MXDs that need exporting to CMYK PDF so making none of the suggested solutions very suitable at this time. ... View more

Hi there, Seem to have hit against something a little odd this afternoon in that if I go to enable the Production Symbology toolbar ArcMap crashes. The issue initial started when I tried to overwrite a view that was already stored in the product library and ArcMap crashed following this I was unable to get ArcMap to launch with it continually crashing on startup. I therefore reset my application profile which allowed me to at least relaunch ArcMap. However, ever since then every time I try and enable the Production Symbology toolbar the ArcMap crashes. Given that we rely quite heavily upon map views to maintain consistency of styling being unable to launch the tool bar is a bit of a doozy. Any help would be much appreciated Cheers Geoff ... View more

Hi there, We have a series of maps within production mapping (10.5.1) consisting of 20 products, each product is a 400mm x 400mm area of Ireland at 1:250,000. We recently had the need to make a change to the visual specification of the mapping so having made the required changes to the first mxd a map view was created to allow the specification to be consistently applied to the remaining products in the series. However, as I check out each of the products in turn to apply the map view I have encountered it appears that every third product encounters issues. When checking the file out it loses its layer structure, the data frame containing the AOI shrinks right down to the bottom left-hand corner and an empty 'Layer' data frame fills the rest of the document, in effect emulating a newly created product. If I then quit ArcMap, reopen, undo the check out of the product with issues and re-check out all is fine again. I can proceed to apply the view to this and one other product before the issue happens again. Are there any known issues with ArcMap not clearing memory so that by the time I check out the third file it has maxed out, or is there likely to be some other cause? Any assistance much appreciated. Geoff ... View more