idea Data driven pages (ArcGIS Pro Map Series) should have more export file type options in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Data driven pages (ArcGIS Pro Map Series) should have more export file type options

JeffWielki1 — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 14:03:26 GMT

PDF is super useful, but sometimes exporting a map book series to JPG, TIFF, or perhaps other options may be useful for users.

This was available in DS map books, please bring this functionality back sp users don't need to add the step of exporting from the PDF file.

Re: Data driven pages should have more export file type options

JeffMoulds — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:21:00 GMT

We do have an enhancement in our system to export to more formats other than PDF via the UI. However you can do this using Python, as documented in the export data driven pages help topic.

See the Code Samples > Data Driven Pages Example 1 in this help topic:

http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/DataDrivenPages/00s300000030000000/

Re: Data driven pages should have more export file type options

JeffWielki1 — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:01:17 GMT

Cool. Thanks.

I don't mind some arcpy, but I know some people that find it's flavour a bit sour. For that reason I think in the next version exporting multiple data driven pages to multiple files that are TIFFs or JPEGs (or whatever) should be considered as a part of the Export Map UI.

Re: Data driven pages should have more export file type options

JenniferBorlick — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:14:04 GMT

The arcpy is great and all, but this seems to be a pretty standard thing that one should be able to do without having to script it.

Data Driven Pages for JPEG, PNG, etc

DanielMakridakis — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 01:30:02 GMT

Please make it possibly to export a data driven map book as a JPEG, PNG, and every other format option in addition to PDFs. I know how to do it using python, took me a bit being a novice, but everything in this field comes down to improving efficiency and the need to tweak my code every time I have to export JPEG data driven pages does not help being efficient. I have to update 500 page map books on a bi-weekly basis in both JPEG and PDF format. At this point I have automated processes to handle those; however, I wasted hours if not days creating those programs for something I feel like should have already been an option.

Thank You

Re: Data Driven Pages for JPEG, PNG, etc

DanielMakridakis — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 01:39:10 GMT

An additional thought to build on that:

My orignal above idea was for the ability to export JPEG pages as "Multiple JPEG Files (page names)" as you can with PDFs. I realize that exporting pages as a "Single JPEG File" would obviously not work. However, I wonder if there is a way to export JPEG or PNG as a "Single PowerPoint File" where each map is a different slide. This would be usefull considering many times I export to JPEG or PNG it is to insert a map into a powerpoint.

Re: Data Driven Pages for JPEG, PNG, etc

FC_Basson — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 12:30:17 GMT

For your extended idea you could still use the arcpy ExportToJPEG function to generate the JPEG/PNG files and combine the outputs with the python-pptx library to create a Powerpoint file.

Re: Data driven pages should have more export file type options

Joseph_Kinyon — Mon, 07 May 2018 18:40:06 GMT

This is also a desired ability in ArcGIS Pro.
I have written up this as an Idea for ArcGIS Pro that has been tagged as duplicative of this request.
I sure hope it doesn't take 8 years and persist in the next version of ESRI software without a solution other than code it yourself.
Share & Export All Pages of Map Series ArcGIS Pro to JPG, etc.

Re: Data driven pages should have more export file type options

DanFrey — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:16:22 GMT

We've pretty much got our operations transitioned from ArcMap to ArcPro. We've generated several map series in ArcPro, outputting to PDF. Works great. Now we need a series of 170 PNG map images for our web site. I thought that surely we could also use the ArcPro Map Series functionality, and just choose a different output format. Apparently not so at present. This would seem to me to be logical functionality to have. I guess now, my options are 1) find an efficient way to create images from PDF, 2) export map series maps to PNG format one by one, or 3) figure out how to accomplish this via Python.

Re: Data driven pages should have more export file type options

Joseph_Kinyon — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:54:33 GMT

Dan,

FYI, File format options for PDF export, Adobe Acrobat

Joe

Re: Data driven pages should have more export file type options

JillHalchin — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:04:31 GMT

I'm using Pro's Map Series to produce maps for our staff archeologists to use in the field. Paper pdfs are helpful, but I need georeferenced output that can be used by Avenza and Trimble Terrasync as background files. To get those, I have to page through the series, activate the map frame and export each map separately. Being able to batch export, with world files, would be a huge time saver. I'll take a look at the python possibilities, but I don't have time to learn much about coding.

Re: Data driven pages should have more export file type options

JACKSJOSTROM — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:30:34 GMT

It would be helpful to export to geoTiff or to Raster Catalog in a geodatabase as .tif format rather than having to export to geoPdf, then requiring the use of PDF to TIFF conversion option, then to raster catalog. Why only a PDF format when we work with file geodatabases and SDE in ArcGIS?

Re: Data driven pages should have more export file type options

AndreasLorentzen — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 12:51:10 GMT

This is quite necessary for many in my firm. We are for the most part creating long reports where we need standardized maps of each feature or area. This could be 2 to several hundred features, where all should be imported into word as .png or .jpg. Also, most of our users have almost never seen a python (snake or script) and it is therefore not a viable solution for them to start scripting.

It would be a real timesaver for many of us.

However. I might create my own export tool, but this seams a bit unnecessary as this feature was implemented in ArcMap.

PS: loves the new bookmark map series.

Batch Export GeoTiff from the Content View by Bookmarks or by a Polygon Grid Index or Strip Map Index

MiguelMartinezYordan — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 12:33:48 GMT

It will be great to be able to export multiple image areas in the Content view to a GeoTiff in a batch process using either the projects bookmarks or the polygons from a Grid Index Feature or a Strip Map Index Feature.

Re: Batch Export GeoTiff from the Content View by Bookmarks or by a Polygon Grid Index or Strip Map Index

JakeSkinner — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 13:03:16 GMT

@MiguelMartinezYordan here is some code you can use to do this. The Pro project will require a single map and a single layout added. You can then update the # Variables section:

import arcpy, os, sys arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = 1 # Variables geoTIFFDirectory = r"C:\GeoTIFFs" gridIndex = r"C:\Data.gdb\GridIndex" dpi = 300 proProject = r"C:\Projects\Export.aprx" # Get count of gridIndex totalNets = arcpy.GetCount_management(gridIndex) count = int(totalNets.getOutput(0)) # Reference Pro Project and layout p = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject(proProject) l = p.listLayouts()[0] mf = l.listElements("mapframe_element")[0] # Export GeoTIFFs for feat in range(1, count + 1): with arcpy.da.SearchCursor(gridIndex, ["SHAPE@"], f"OID = {feat}") as cursor: for row in cursor: extent = row[0].extent geoTIFF = os.path.join(geoTIFFDirectory, f"PageID_{feat}.tif") mf.camera.setExtent(extent) cam = mf.camera arcpy.AddMessage(f"Exporting {geoTIFF}") mf.exportToTIFF(geoTIFF, resolution=int(dpi), world_file=True, geoTIFF_tags=True) del cursor # Delete reference to Project del p

geoTIFFDirectory = directory to store GeoTIFFs

gridIndex = path to grid index feature class

dpi = dpi of GeoTIFFs

proProject = path to APRX file

Re: Data driven pages should have more export file type options

AlBost — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 11:14:32 GMT

We would also like to see various export types (JPG, PNG, etc.) when working with Map Series.

Re: Data driven pages should have more export file type options

GregoireS — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 17:15:05 GMT

Still waiting for an improvement ! Kind of basic

Allow for Map Series Export to formats other than PDF

DavidSchmidt1 — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 22:12:58 GMT

Currently one can only export a map series to PDF but not to PNG, JPEG, etc. This has resulted in either needing to export each individual page in the series manually or use of third party software to convert from PDF to PNG once exported. The functionality to do this out of the box, thus negating tedious/extra work would be excellent

Re: Data driven pages should have more export file type options

MichelleWilliamsERM — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 22:24:50 GMT

I love this idea! Yes, please make it easy for everyone.

Map Series of Images

DeanHowellTMR — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 03:37:27 GMT

At present it appears you can only output a map series as PDF, but it would be great to be able to do the same for any image format as well.

I have the need to be able to create the map series but insert the map image in to another document, so presently I have to extract the map series image from the PDF in FME and then insert the extracted image.