topic Large Legend in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Large Legend

AndrewMartinez4 — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 19:55:55 GMT

So this is more of a cartography question I guess but I have a layer that has over 200 unique features and I want to simply add the legend to the backside of that map. It is map that I must have available to print out. Is their anyway for me to accomplish this within ArcGIS Pro?

Re: Large Legend

MarcoBoeringa — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 21:32:16 GMT

The size should be manageable, although sometimes a bit slow if still a dynamic legend. I have created similarly sized legends though. If the legend needs to be on its own page, I guess you can convert it to graphics and copy/paste it to another layout. Admittedly I have not yet attempted this in Pro, but the ability to convert to graphics of dynamic legends also exists in ArcMap.

Re: Large Legend

AndrewMartinez4 — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 21:35:27 GMT

"I guess you can convert it to graphics and copy/paste it to another layout." This is what I was planning to do, I just wanted to here some other possibilities.

Thanks

Re: Large Legend

KoryKramer — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 13:15:22 GMT

It seems like Marco's solution is the most straightforward/easiest. Always go with the easiest solution:)

Since a layout is one page, yet you want to create something that is 1 layout but two pages (front and back when printed) the only way that I can think to do that would be to create a 2-page map series, meaning that you'd have to create an index layer, potentially with a dummy index feature for the second page... and then you get the legend on the first page as well... er, see what I mean. Try Marco's suggestion:)