topic Re: Symbol Property Editor will not display Character Marker Symbols in Mapping Questions

Symbol Property Editor will not display Character Marker Symbols

RasheedKhaleel — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:19:40 GMT

We just upgraded to ArcGIS 10 and whenever I try to change point feature symbology, Character Markers will not display, and I cannot edit point symbols beyond size, color, and masks of existing symbols. I've tried rolling back to 9.3 but no dice. Please advise.

Re: Symbol Property Editor will not display Character Marker Symbols

JohnMcKinnon — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:40:22 GMT

Having the same problem... the Symbol Property Editor is missing the "control boxes" for "Character Marker Symbols". I can not pick a font or a subset.

Re: Symbol Property Editor will not display Character Marker Symbols

WayneRunkles — Wed, 11 May 2011 16:46:06 GMT

Me too! Any solution yet?

Re: Symbol Property Editor will not display Character Marker Symbols

RasheedKhaleel — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:07:12 GMT

Still no solution on my end. Other machines work, uninstalling on mine and reinstalling does not work.

Re: Symbol Property Editor will not display Character Marker Symbols

WinstonSastroredjo — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:02:01 GMT

is there a solution for this problem....i am also encountering it...

Re: Symbol Property Editor will not display Character Marker Symbols

Olivier_MOUGEL — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 09:43:23 GMT

Hi,
I'd got the same problem but desactivating this ATI option solved it.
Thank you for this advice

Olivier MOUGEL
Gironde County
France

Re: Symbol Property Editor will not display Character Marker Symbols

GregHawker — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 22:43:08 GMT

Hi,

I've upgraded to 10.2.2 and now have the same problem. What were the steps you took to fix this problem?

I also have a new PC. So I'm not sure if it is a software or a hardware fix.

Greg Hawker

New Zealand

Re: Symbol Property Editor will not display Character Marker Symbols

BrianKaplan — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 15:42:10 GMT

Changing the ATI options fixed it for me and the instructions are here. http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/85840/why-are-character-marker-symbol-dialog-not-showing-up-in-the-symbol-property-edi

Re: Symbol Property Editor will not display Character Marker Symbols

GregHawker — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 20:31:37 GMT

Thank you.

Interestingly I had just deleted my normal.mxt for another reason the day before receiving your email and that did indeed fix that problem I had as well.

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Re: Symbol Property Editor will not display Character Marker Symbols

BrianKaplan — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 14:57:06 GMT

Now I'm on a different computer at work with a different graphics card and the same issue with the Character Markers not showing up is happening. I deleted the normal.mxt and that did not solve it. The solution for me on this NVIDIA QUADRO 4000 was to install the latest device driver (version 341.05

Re: Symbol Property Editor will not display Character Marker Symbols

CharlesBlack — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 13:38:10 GMT

I downloaded 10.3 recently and had the same problem. My solution was to do the following:

Customize

Toolbars

Click "Labeling" toolbar

On the labeling toolbar, click the drop-down arrow next to labeling.

Scroll down to Use Maplex Label Engine and click to turn it off.

It will give you a screen prompt asking are you sure you want to turn it off, click yes.

It works perfectly now.

Re: Symbol Property Editor will not display Character Marker Symbols

DanThompson — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 14:29:33 GMT

I tried that maplex suggestion and it didn't work, that also isn't a good solution because i use maplex for all my advanced labeling and can't really make maps without it.

I also have this issue, the character marker editor slowly opens and then everything is blank (10.3.1.)

And if I click the font dropdown menu, all the values duplicate themselves.

Re: Symbol Property Editor will not display Character Marker Symbols

MikePrzybyla — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 15:29:26 GMT

I have the same issue which seems to occur after editing. Restarting Arc fixes it until the next time it occurs. It seems to most often occur when accessing symbol properties from the label manager.

Re: Symbol Property Editor will not display Character Marker Symbols

LaimonasLiskauskas1 — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:50:20 GMT

Hi, we have the same problem which you have described in your post:

also have this issue, the character marker editor slowly opens and then everything is blank (10.3.1.)

And if I click the font dropdown menu, all the values duplicate themselves.

Have you found the solution for it?

Thanks in advance.

Re: Symbol Property Editor will not display Character Marker Symbols

chrisdalu — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 02:16:32 GMT

I return to edit my own post, because the solution for me anyways seems to be that posted in this forum above from Bryan Kaplan in 2014, which indicates the problem to be related to a setting in ADI, specifically, Hydravision, Desktop Manager, and disabling the "Enable Dialog Repositioning." Doing this made everything return to normal. See arcgis 10.0 - Why are Character Marker Symbol Dialog not showing up in the Symbol Property Editor dialog? - Geographic I…

This problem seems to have been persisting for nearly 6 years.

Does anyone have a consistent solution, or better yet any idea of what causes it.

I get many of the same issues mentioned here. Duplicate characters, won't fix with turning off Maplex.

Essentially, when in Symbol Property Editor, and after selecting dropdown for "Character Marker Symbol", it fails to access the character markers, which includes all the fonts.

It seems that whatever internal mapping occurs, is not targeting my fonts folder.

As far as my existing symbols that I saved when it worked, they do fine, unless I try to edit them, in which case all I get when I try to edit the character markers is the same thing I get as if I were editing the "Simple Marker Symbol." - see below.

Any help on this would be magnificent.

Re: Symbol Property Editor will not display Character Marker Symbols

TomBell1 — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 15:58:15 GMT

I have Windows 10 without a HydraVision graphics card controller, but I've struggled with this for years with various hardware setups. I have found a cumbersome workaround, but it does work. Here you go:

You have to adjust the screen resolution. So, to be able to see the character set, use the display options to ramp the screen resolution all the way down as far as it will go (in my case 800 x 600). This shows most of the character set and you can scroll down to what you need:

BUT, you aren't able to access the "X-Y" controls when they sit behind the character set, so to do that, place the display back to the optimal resolution. You can't change the characters anymore, but you can access the X and Y settings:

So just toggle between resolutions. This is difficult, but it's better than nothing. I hope this helps some of you.