topic Re: Need to get to the Layout Legend objects, such as swatches and label properties. in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/need-to-get-to-the-layout-legend-objects-such-as/m-p/147687#M11468 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hey Miguel,</P><P>just by looking at the <A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/de/help/main/10.1/index.html#//00s300000041000000">documentation </A>it seems possible to me. Did you try to dive deeper into the elements in the returned list?</P><P>Best,</P><P>Philippe</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 13 Jan 2015 13:34:11 GMT PhilippeRieffel1 2015-01-13T13:34:11Z Need to get to the Layout Legend objects, such as swatches and label properties. https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/need-to-get-to-the-layout-legend-objects-such-as/m-p/147686#M11467 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Greetings List.&nbsp; I would like to be able to access the legend elements on a layout document in order to check the dimensions of the swatches and the font, font size, style, and similar properties of the legend elements.&nbsp; Does anyone know if this is possible through Arcpy.mapping?</P><P>I have looked at <STRONG>ListLayoutElements</STRONG>, with LEGEND_ELEMENT as the element_type, but that only returns a list of the names of the layers in the legend.</P><P></P><P>I have a feeling that the object model for Arcpy.mapping is not granular enough to obtain the information I need.&nbsp; Is this correct?</P><P></P><P>Any help, suggestions, advice would be greatly and gratefully appreciated.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 13 Jan 2015 10:24:59 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/need-to-get-to-the-layout-legend-objects-such-as/m-p/147686#M11467 MiguelParedes 2015-01-13T10:24:59Z Re: Need to get to the Layout Legend objects, such as swatches and label properties. https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/need-to-get-to-the-layout-legend-objects-such-as/m-p/147687#M11468 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hey Miguel,</P><P>just by looking at the <A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/de/help/main/10.1/index.html#//00s300000041000000">documentation </A>it seems possible to me. Did you try to dive deeper into the elements in the returned list?</P><P>Best,</P><P>Philippe</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 13 Jan 2015 13:34:11 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/need-to-get-to-the-layout-legend-objects-such-as/m-p/147687#M11468 PhilippeRieffel1 2015-01-13T13:34:11Z Re: Need to get to the Layout Legend objects, such as swatches and label properties. https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/need-to-get-to-the-layout-legend-objects-such-as/m-p/147688#M11469 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The documentation does seem to support this, there are no objects for each individual legend item, but just a name.</P><P></P><P>You could try to parse the XML's that are created when exporting an MXD to an MSD as documented in this post:</P><P><A href="http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/27807/creating-summary-table-of-symbology-of-all-datasets-in-multiple-mxds" title="http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/27807/creating-summary-table-of-symbology-of-all-datasets-in-multiple-mxds">arcgis desktop - Creating summary table of symbology of all datasets in multiple MXDs? - Geographic Information Systems …</A> </P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 14 Jan 2015 19:08:14 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/need-to-get-to-the-layout-legend-objects-such-as/m-p/147688#M11469 DavidBlanchard 2015-01-14T19:08:14Z