https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/arcmap-10-8-data-driven-pages-in-standalone-script/m-p/1308881#M6676 <P>And for reasons not worth getting into, Pro and Map Series are not an option.</P> Tue, 18 Jul 2023 01:11:06 GMT jtmathwig 2023-07-18T01:11:06Z https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/arcmap-10-8-data-driven-pages-in-standalone-script/m-p/1308878#M6675 <P>Am I missing something, or does ArcMap have to be open in order to use ArcPy and Data Drive Pages? My script runs smoothly if ArcMap is open (even with a blank MXD), but if I run the script in standalone, I get ddp.pageCount = 0. Python will recognize that DDP is enabled and can access the Index Layer, etc., but for some reason it doesn't see the pages?</P><P>I'd like to be able to export DDP to PDF as a standalone. Can anyone provide any insight?</P><P>This is Python 2.7 with an .mxd set up in an ArcMap 10.8 environment.</P> Tue, 18 Jul 2023 01:05:23 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/arcmap-10-8-data-driven-pages-in-standalone-script/m-p/1308878#M6675 jtmathwig 2023-07-18T01:05:23Z https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/arcmap-10-8-data-driven-pages-in-standalone-script/m-p/1308881#M6676 <P>And for reasons not worth getting into, Pro and Map Series are not an option.</P> Tue, 18 Jul 2023 01:11:06 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/arcmap-10-8-data-driven-pages-in-standalone-script/m-p/1308881#M6676 jtmathwig 2023-07-18T01:11:06Z