https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/question-about-pdf/m-p/1695845#M102761 <P>I worked on a project I did in 2023 and export the PDF. One thing I did not enabled the PDF Settings to "Export georeference information".</P><P><BR />Now I regret that I did not, because someone asked me to make a bigger map and copy this project to another server.</P><P><BR />When I went back to that project, I realized that the legend got messed up and some layer had broken links.</P><P><BR />I am re-doing it because I did not lock the legend (My bad)</P><P><BR />Now I still have that old PDF and there are no layers to turn on and off.</P><P><BR />The only thing I am asking is there is a way for me to put the old PDF back and get the layers to get them on or off.<BR />The reason is because I wanted the PDF to have the list to show each layer on or off.</P><P><BR />One of them I want to turn on a layer to see what I did in 2023 and the rest of other layers to turn off...</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Anyone tried that before ?</P> Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:59:18 GMT DEAF_PROBERT_68 2026-04-13T15:59:18Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/question-about-pdf/m-p/1695845#M102761 <P>I worked on a project I did in 2023 and export the PDF. One thing I did not enabled the PDF Settings to "Export georeference information".</P><P><BR />Now I regret that I did not, because someone asked me to make a bigger map and copy this project to another server.</P><P><BR />When I went back to that project, I realized that the legend got messed up and some layer had broken links.</P><P><BR />I am re-doing it because I did not lock the legend (My bad)</P><P><BR />Now I still have that old PDF and there are no layers to turn on and off.</P><P><BR />The only thing I am asking is there is a way for me to put the old PDF back and get the layers to get them on or off.<BR />The reason is because I wanted the PDF to have the list to show each layer on or off.</P><P><BR />One of them I want to turn on a layer to see what I did in 2023 and the rest of other layers to turn off...</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Anyone tried that before ?</P> Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:59:18 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/question-about-pdf/m-p/1695845#M102761 DEAF_PROBERT_68 2026-04-13T15:59:18Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/question-about-pdf/m-p/1696690#M102827 <P><a href="https://community.esri.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/16227">@DEAF_PROBERT_68</a>&nbsp;When the old PDF was generated, the georeferenced information was not preserved. Hence, the data layering cannot be activated at the old PDF.</P><P>Your best path forward is to fix, re-create the project and generate new maps, PDFs.&nbsp; &nbsp;</P> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:53:39 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/question-about-pdf/m-p/1696690#M102827 AyanPalit 2026-04-16T13:53:39Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/question-about-pdf/m-p/1697232#M102861 <P>Yeah. Wish there was a magic one.. ha ha&nbsp;</P> Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:27:13 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/question-about-pdf/m-p/1697232#M102861 DEAF_PROBERT_68 2026-04-20T14:27:13Z