topic Re: 10.5.1 Broken Label Functions in Mapping Questions

10.5.1 Broken Label Functions

DavidLehrke — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 15:15:13 GMT

After upgrading from 10.2 to 10.5.1 certain Arcmap functions no longer work properly. The ones that affect me most are related to labeling.

Character spacing is no longer viable. The results are unevenly spaced characters and halo and drop shadow spaced differently than the Label Text. I suspect Word spacing produces similar bad results but haven't tested it.

Draw Graphic features no longer interacts with labels. I used to use a draw toolbar to create an easy way to organize and unclutter labels. Most commonly with extent indicator frames. An invisible graphic rectangle could prevent labels from covering up the extent indicator frame. In 10.5.1 even though the 'Annotation and Graphics' window is available in the weight ranking settings, changing these settings doesn't have any effect. Labels will always be placed on top of graphic objects.

Is there any plans for these issues to be resolved? Or is there workaround for this 2nd issue that is faster than creating a gdb, creating a feature class, creating features for every any maps I need to reproduce with this functionality.

Re: 10.5.1 Broken Label Functions

mneer — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 17:52:56 GMT

If this is the same bug "BUG-000105383" apparently it was fixed in 10.6

https://community.esri.com/thread/203744-pdf-export-character-spacing-1051-issue

Re: 10.5.1 Broken Label Functions

LindsayWithers1 — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:27:34 GMT

We just upgraded to 10.6.1 and are also having the "Labels will always be placed on top of graphic objects" issue in ArcMap which wasn't happening for us in 10.5, and label weighting in general doesn't seem to be working (when we have a polygon's label Interior and Boundary feature weight set to 1,000, labels are still drawing about that polygon).

Re: 10.5.1 Broken Label Functions

LindsayWithers1 — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:33:49 GMT

This link no longer seems to work.