idea Text - Change Symbols / Edit Symbol Dialog Speed in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Text - Change Symbols / Edit Symbol Dialog Speed

CraigAnderson — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:33:12 GMT

The time that it takes ArcMap Desktop to pop up the Change Symbols and Edit Symbols dialog boxes when dealing with text symbols is egregious!

This happens whenter using text labels (graphic elements) , or the Symbol Selector under Layer->Properties->Layer Tab. Whenever you need to tweak the font, mask, shadow, character spacing, word spacing, or anything else about any type of text-based element, you are paying this penalty. The Smbol Property Editor for Character sysmbols (the one that shows the table of characters for a font) is also incredibly slow.

These operations occur numberous times per edit session, and waiting 3-4 seconds ( on quad core Intel Core i7 @ 3.0GHz, 16GB RAM, solid state drive) each time is crazy. It seems that ArcMap Desktop is re-reading the entire Fonts directory on the computer every time the dialog box is requested. Cache it somehow please.

An improvement on this one feature could save literally thousands of people-hours world-wide annually.

Make dialog boxes snappy! Thanks!

Re: Text - Change Symbols / Edit Symbol Dialog Speed

mattwilkie — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 22:02:53 GMT

Intermediate solution: uninstall as many fonts as you can.

see http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/61799/is-there-any-way-to-spead-up-the-properties-change-symbol-and-symbol-selector/ for more details.

Better solution: Arcgis should cache info on the fonts it finds on the first invocation of Edit Symbol or Label Layers in that session.

Re: Text - Change Symbols / Edit Symbol Dialog Speed

WendyHarrison — Thu, 02 May 2024 22:01:46 GMT

ArcGIS Desktop is in mature support and will be retired March 1, 2026 so we won’t be considering this idea. We recommend that you migrate to ArcGIS Pro, our fully supported desktop GIS application. See Migrate from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro for more information. Thank you for taking the time to share your ideas. We truly appreciate your contributions to continuously improving the software to help you do your work and look forward to what ideas you have for ArcGIS Pro.

Re: Text - Change Symbols / Edit Symbol Dialog Speed - Status changed to: Closed

WendyHarrison — Thu, 02 May 2024 22:01:58 GMT