topic Problems exporting map to PDF that contains TIN dataset in ArcMap 9.3 in 3D Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/3d-questions/problems-exporting-map-to-pdf-that-contains-tin/m-p/240036#M1469 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Usually I print to PDF to create my output map but when I print to PDF from my map document that contains a TIN dataset, the file fails to draw properly (the outline of the TIN data appears but doesn't complete in the centre and no additional vector data is drawn).&nbsp; I have since tried using the 'export map' function but this produces enormous file sizes (28,000KB +) and takes about 30 seconds to draw each time I open the exported PDF. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I can't help but think there has to be a way of reducing the size of the TIN dataset so that it can be represented as one image/a simple layer rather than redrawing each and every time I do anything within my map.&nbsp; I've used the 'TIN to raster' tool in 3D Analyst, which does work however as it's a raster file the quality is reduced.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If anyone in the ArcGis world can shed some light on this it would be huuugely appreciated!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Hannah</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 24 Dec 2013 10:08:31 GMT HannahBush 2013-12-24T10:08:31Z Problems exporting map to PDF that contains TIN dataset in ArcMap 9.3 https://community.esri.com/t5/3d-questions/problems-exporting-map-to-pdf-that-contains-tin/m-p/240036#M1469 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Usually I print to PDF to create my output map but when I print to PDF from my map document that contains a TIN dataset, the file fails to draw properly (the outline of the TIN data appears but doesn't complete in the centre and no additional vector data is drawn).&nbsp; I have since tried using the 'export map' function but this produces enormous file sizes (28,000KB +) and takes about 30 seconds to draw each time I open the exported PDF. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I can't help but think there has to be a way of reducing the size of the TIN dataset so that it can be represented as one image/a simple layer rather than redrawing each and every time I do anything within my map.&nbsp; I've used the 'TIN to raster' tool in 3D Analyst, which does work however as it's a raster file the quality is reduced.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If anyone in the ArcGis world can shed some light on this it would be huuugely appreciated!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Hannah</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 24 Dec 2013 10:08:31 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/3d-questions/problems-exporting-map-to-pdf-that-contains-tin/m-p/240036#M1469 HannahBush 2013-12-24T10:08:31Z