Drifting Scale Bar in Data-driven Pages

JohnBranum — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 22:02:20 GMT

Hello All -

I've got a dynamic scale bar in a map book of data-driven pages. The scale bar is positioned right-justified over the data frame with its bottom-right Anchor Point selected in Properties > Size and Position tab > Position field. After I step through a few data-driven pages the scale bar will begin to drift to the right, further with every page. In the example below, the right side of the scale bar was originally vertically aligned with the scale-text box above it.

As I backtrack through those same pages it continues its rightward drift. The scale bar will eventually walk off the page. This doesn't happen when it is left-justified.

Is my ArcMap haunted?

- John on 10.5.1

Re: Drifting Scale Bar in Data-driven Pages

ThomasMoore3 — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 16:47:19 GMT

I'm also having this issue. The bar stays in place through several pages, but then on one page it nudges right. Once it starts to move, it just keeps going. Exports this way as well.

-ArcMap 10.5.1

Edit: It looks like this issue has been around for a while: arcgis desktop - Scale Bar Element moves when using Data Driven Pages? - Geographic Information Systems Stack Exchange

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