Latest Contributions by JamesBoggs

‎03-23-2016

Okay, I think I understand what you mean and can see how that would help in some situations. I don't think that would apply to my situation though. I have a seamless layer of Parcels. I have another layer of Maps. Each Map is a polygon overlapping several Parcels, the Map layer is the focus of each page, so it shows all the parcels on that map while hiding the parcels not overlapped by the Map polygon. If I would change the vertices on the Map polygon to be in the extent of my frame it would hide some of the Parcels that I need to show...I hope that makes sense. In any case, my solution for now is to simply change the scale attribute. I was trying to stick to standard scales 1:2400, 1:4800, 1:9600 etc. But a few being a slightly odd scale shouldn't be that big of a deal. Thanks.

‎03-18-2016

I'm not sure this would work since most of my pages are rotated based on an attribute field. I did try running it, but it seemed like it was going to take a while since I have about 500 pages. When I left my desk and came back, ArcMap had crashed. Thank you for the response though.

‎03-18-2016

Thank you for responding. I tried your suggestion of disabling the DDP, but that only presents a new problem. Much of the text is dynamic, so when I disable DDP it shows all dynamic text fields as [empty]. I’m assuming there is no way to correct this without having to manually re-type all of the text for each export? The text would be different for each map I am exporting. I tried adjusting the extent using the three methods highlighted in the attached image, but still, it exported the default. Is there another method or am I misunderstanding what you mean by editing the index feature so it pulls in what I want extent-wise? Thank you.

‎03-15-2016

The extent of my data driven pages are setup based on a data driven scale attribute. This frames most of my maps well when I batch export them to PDF files. But a few are cut off by the frame. The set scale will fit in the frame; it just needs to be manually panned to fit. It’s only a few pages giving me problems, so I could just go to the problem pages, use the pan tool to adjust the map and export it again. When I do this, the export shows the default position in the frame, not the position that I panned to. How can I ensure my maps are in frame when batch exporting? How does it determine how to frame your map when you use a data driven scale attribute? There doesn’t seem to be a way to use both “Best Fit” and “Data Driven Scale” which would be ideal. Why when I manually pan the map in my frame, does it not export the panned position? I have attached some photos of the issue and also my page settings.

‎06-13-2012

I have a map with an annotation text layer and a polygon shape file layer of parcels. In roughly the center of each polygon is a placed annotation text string with the acres (according to a deed) of that parcel. In the polygon shape file�??s attribute table I calculated the area in acres. Many of the parcel polygons calculated acres are a different acreage than what they should be according to the annotation text. I would like to compare the calculated acreage vs. the text annotation acreage to see how many acres +\- they differ. Can I somehow add a field to the polygon attribute table and place the annotation text string into the polygon attribute table based on the overlap of the annotation and polygon? Since they are different types of data I cannot do a merge and neither attribute table has a common field so I cannot do a join or relate. I thought that since the annotation text overlaps the polygon there would be a way to somehow join or merge the annotation text string to a field in the attribute table in the same row of the polygon that the annotation sits on. Is there any way to do what I want to do? I am very new to ArcGIS and to GIS in general so sorry if my question is confusing or I am using incorrect terminology. I hope you can understand what I am trying to do. Thanks

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Re: How to frame data driven pages

Re: How to frame data driven pages

Re: How to frame data driven pages

How to frame data driven pages

Joining annotation text to a shape file attribute field