September 2024. My company, which creates hundreds of environmental figures a month, working on hundreds of projects a year have been using ArcMap since it came out. As clunky as people think, the software was actually simple to use once you knew it, snappy, and had expected behavior for the most part. Converting projects to ArcPro was simple, but like any software, there are limitations and "quirks". The majority of time spent on figures we produce involve labels and displaying data in labels. I am currently working on a project that will end up having 40 annotative feature classes linked to features. The anno features all have label classes as well. To convert 28 features for a single anno class,(my example point feature) takes about 2-3 min to run. The most frustrating thing, is that updating annotation or creating new annotation on selected features. Adding a single label takes about 3 min. Even selecting and moving labels is slow compared to ArcMap. Everything I have read states that Pro annotation is buggy and not as solid as the Map version. We have been converting to Pro, but this issue defiantly causes frustration. Working every day in a choppy environment with annotation will cause projects to take longer due to simple things like creating and editing labels. I feel your pain and open to ANYTHING that solves this issue. We have tried local projects on the local drive, new GDBs, small features, same experience. We all have 32 GB RAM, and more then enough GPU and graphics to handle the load. We have basically taken everything out of the equation to conclude that there is something going on with the performance of annotation in the software. Who else is having issues with annotation?
