Modified Topic: How do you copy the legend from A to B with different scale and paper size ?

DEAF_PROBERT_68 — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 23:20:53 GMT

I have a question for you and what is the best practice for me to copy the legend from another ArcMap A to ArcMap B. They are in the Layout View. it has different scale like in 1: 70,000 to 1:55, 000 without having to adjust the legend ?

So here is the example of what I am talking about here:

ArcMap A (36x36 )

Layout View ArcMap B ( 36x44)

Layout View

Scale : 1: 70,000 -----------------> Scale : 1:55, 000

So the legend from the 70,000 seem to be bigger than the 55,000 and when I resize it to meet the same as the 55,,00 it seems that the symbol gets smaller and the symbol changes. I had to fix it and try to resize the symbols however it is not what I wanted.

What is the method or a way around to fix this ?

P.S. ( As of 28 MARCH 2018)

I found out that when I copy and paste with different scale BUT the paper size is different...

So when I copy from ArcMap A and paste to ArcMap B... The paper size is different ...

Because when you copy , the legend becomes smaller and hard to read, is there a solution to make this fix ?

Has anyone ever done like this in the past and if so what is the solution to it ?

Re: Copy legend from ArcMap A to ArcMap B with different scales ?

JimCousins — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 14:28:37 GMT

I have had issues with scaling of copied features if the layouts are not at the same scale. So, zoom map layout 1 to max extent and copy the feature in question. then go to map layout 2, and zoom to the same map extent before pasting the feature.

Best regards,

Jim

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Modified Topic: How do you copy the legend from A to B with different scale and paper size ?

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