idea Fitting strategies for layout text elements and legends in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Fitting strategies for layout text elements and legends

JeffThomasILM — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 17:35:28 GMT

It would be great if rectangle (and polygon, circle, ellipse) layout text elements had fitting strategies like map labels. Legends already have some control for columns and text size. The idea is for all these elements to have additional fitting strategies like abbreviations and font width compression. This would help tremendously with ensuring layouts work for all pages of a map series with dynamic text of varying lengths.

This idea would help with fitting text in a single element, but a closely related idea of mine would help prevent overlap or clipping between multiple layout elements in a layout used for map series:

Intelligent grouping (flow) for layout elements

Re: Fitting strategies for layout text elements and legends - Status changed to: Under Consideration

JeffBarrette — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 19:12:28 GMT

The layout team is currently considering part of this idea. Particularly the idea of adjusting font size with a minimum threshold.

Re: Fitting strategies for layout text elements and legends - Status changed to: In Product Plan

AubriOtis — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 05:17:48 GMT

Re: Fitting strategies for layout text elements and legends - Status changed to: Implemented

AubriOtis — Thu, 09 May 2024 20:09:09 GMT

Fitting strategies are available for rectangle text elements in ArcGIS Pro 3.3.

Re: Fitting strategies for layout text elements and legends

wayfaringrob — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 23:18:04 GMT

@AubriOtis 3.3.1, not working. If I double click and click out, it fixes itself, but comes back when I change to a different page of my map series or refresh the layout.

Field values have some carriage returns, and this is in a map series, not sure if either of those are the issue. But I'm not sure I'd mark this 'implemented' until it actually works.