https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/label-font-color-dropped-from-layout-export/m-p/1025055#M37117 <P>Couldn't find a similar question on here, so I'm asking in case anyone's encountered this:</P><P>I have a layout defined in Pro, the underlying map has all sorts of label classes, etc. Among the settings are different font colors for the labels, to help visually distinguish them.</P><P>When I export the layout to PDF, my labels all switch to full black. That's the only change I can see, everything else, including the label halo color, is retained.</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="jcarlson_0-1612906026437.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/5631i76215363EE6D2EF8/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="jcarlson_0-1612906026437.png" alt="jcarlson_0-1612906026437.png" /><span class="lia-inline-image-caption" onclick="event.preventDefault();">jcarlson_0-1612906026437.png</span></span></P><P>I've done plenty of other layout exports which included colored labels, but have never run into this before. I'm using all the defaults for PDF exporting. I have also tried other export formats, and the only way I can get the label color to stick so far is to export it as an image, which I would like to avoid doing.</P><P>Thoughts?</P> Tue, 09 Feb 2021 21:37:13 GMT jcarlson 2021-02-09T21:37:13Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/label-font-color-dropped-from-layout-export/m-p/1025055#M37117 <P>Couldn't find a similar question on here, so I'm asking in case anyone's encountered this:</P><P>I have a layout defined in Pro, the underlying map has all sorts of label classes, etc. Among the settings are different font colors for the labels, to help visually distinguish them.</P><P>When I export the layout to PDF, my labels all switch to full black. That's the only change I can see, everything else, including the label halo color, is retained.</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="jcarlson_0-1612906026437.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/5631i76215363EE6D2EF8/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="jcarlson_0-1612906026437.png" alt="jcarlson_0-1612906026437.png" /><span class="lia-inline-image-caption" onclick="event.preventDefault();">jcarlson_0-1612906026437.png</span></span></P><P>I've done plenty of other layout exports which included colored labels, but have never run into this before. I'm using all the defaults for PDF exporting. I have also tried other export formats, and the only way I can get the label color to stick so far is to export it as an image, which I would like to avoid doing.</P><P>Thoughts?</P> Tue, 09 Feb 2021 21:37:13 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/label-font-color-dropped-from-layout-export/m-p/1025055#M37117 jcarlson 2021-02-09T21:37:13Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/label-font-color-dropped-from-layout-export/m-p/1025414#M37163 <P>Well, I should have attached a PDF for someone to point out that my "problem" wasn't really a problem. As it happens, I had my PDF viewer's accessibility settings turned on to <STRONG>Replace Document Colors</STRONG>, and it defaulted all fonts to black.</P><P>Turning this setting off revealed that the labels were right all along!</P> Wed, 10 Feb 2021 16:34:58 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/label-font-color-dropped-from-layout-export/m-p/1025414#M37163 jcarlson 2021-02-10T16:34:58Z