Annotation to Graphics starting in ArcPro 3.1 to 3.2.2 slows map rendering down to a SLOW crawl....

[SharonHawkins]

We have an office that does cartographic based/large scale projects as their main service and relies on their machines and software to be able to render quickly to maximize the amount of time available to accomplish what they need to.

In ArcPro 3.1 - they noticed that when they converted their road centerline annotation (road names) to Graphics, that the renerding of the map slowed way down.  Having to wait up to 30+ minutes for an 8.5x11 map at a town scale level to regenerate when it used to take 30 seconds.  This happens each time anything changes on the map which make is impossible to work with.  This occurs in ArcPro3.2.2 as well that they just verified when they updated.

In previous versions of ArcPro that we've been testing (ArcPro, 2.9 and 3.0)  the process works great.  Did something change in the new versions that could cause this?

Here are some of the machine specs if needed:  

• Desktop - Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise (64 bit)
• 64 GB RAM
• 64 GB Memory
• 16 Core Processor

Even on the standard desktops - ArcPro 2.9 and 3.0 have no issues with the annotation to Graphics process.

Also - new in 3.2 our highway system shields that we've used for YEARS with no problems developed a "shift" with the text inside the shield and we can't adjust it.

[RhettZufelt]

Don't know about the graphics layer, but does you shield symbol have a custom Font in it?

Pro 3.2.... has bug/issues with some custom fonts and will shift it 'up' from where it is actually placed.  Any other ESRI software will draw it properly, and, even mapservices published from Pro 3.2.. with the shift do not show the shift in the map service.

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[SharonHawkins]

Hi Rhett - Yes - Our highway shields are custom fonts and we are experiencing the shift 'up'  - these have  worked perfectly for years in ArcMap and all other versions of ArcPro until 3.2.  

[RhettZufelt]

Yup, that is what I see also.  Interesting that it is only for drawing and the service from 3.2. doesn't show the shift.

If this is the shield issue, they will most likely say you have a malformed font, and no plans to 'fix' it in the software.  I'm currently looking for a replacement Font, or a way to 'fix' the one I have.

[SharonHawkins]

☹️Well that's a difficult message to see above - when I put years, I meant we've been using the same shield symbol library for going on 15 years.  We use the Highway Gothic Font ourselves.  Have an established policy/procedure around it and this came as a surprise.  Our solve moving forward then is to drop back down a couple of versions for our talented cartographic personnel and come up with a fix to move forward.  Thousands of maps affected for us as a DOT.

Thanks for sharing your experience, Rhett.  Appreciate knowing that others are experiencing this too.  

[RhettZufelt]

you should be able to click on the image above to see it 'full size'.

As far as years, my font file is working perfectly in all versions of ArMap from 9.0 thru 10.8.1 and ArcPro 2.9.3  (didn't test on earlier versions) thru 3.1.3, until 3.2 came out,  3.2 is when this 'broke'  (among various other things).

ESRI claims the reason it was working perfectly before is because of a defect in the Arc software.  Once the defect was resolved (Pro 3.2 and later) the issue started 🙂

My issue is street/road related also.  I only have one Font that represents the pavement markings as they are normally taller than wide to facilitate reading at speed.

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[LoriEmersonKDOT]

I'm having the same huge slow down when converting street labels to annotation in ArcGIS Pro version 3.3.  The ribbon goes gray waiting for a response after I click on a font to move or edit, and it takes 30 -60 seconds to respond and sometimes longer as it goes into the Pro death spiral of the cursor spinning / ribbon deactivated (grayed out) and then the ribbon activates (not grayed out) and then ribbon deactivates, and so on repeatedly.

[LoriEmersonKDOT]

The workaround is to close ArcGIS Pro and open it back up.  Then, editing annotation will be much quicker.  Pro has problems with memory after performing certain tasks such as converting labels to annotation (an also navigating to map series in layout).

Hopefully, Esri will fix these issues in 3.3.1.