How can I show printer margins in ArcPro layout?
Currently, showing printer margins is not available in ArcGIS Pro. This is something that we hope to get to in future release.
Tom
In the soon to be released ArcGIS Pro 2.6, there is an option "Include margins from printer" that adds printer margins to the layout!
James,
First, thank you for your passionate feedback. Though it might not feel like it at times, we DO understand your frustration and ARE listening. We try to organize our work based on many priorities and at times, conflicting priorities. Unfortunately, we can't do everything for everyone all at once. And at times, we may have gotten the priorities wrong. That is why we have forums such as this, so we can readjust our priorities based on feedback from people such as yourself.
three years later and you still can't figure this out? Good lord, how is that possible...this is one of the standard tools that has been in ArcGIS from the beginning.
Yes it would. We hope to get to both.
Does that mean https://community.esri.com/ideas/13398 will also be in 2.6? It would seem pretty silly to fix one bug and not the other closely related one.
Hi Jake,
This is something we hope to get to for the 2.6 release.
AGP still does not show margins in 2.5.0. @KoryKramer: is this still being reported as a bug?
Hi Tom,
Can you point me to a thread in Ideas so I can upvote this issue? If one does not exist, I'll make one. This is basic stuff that should've been in ages ago.
Thanks,Scott
Thats not too bad for a workaround. Certainly not ideal because I can never be sure of what the printer margins are but for the map in question, I looked at the original mxd in ArcMap. In the case of ANSI E the margins are 0.25 for my particular plotter.
Hi Josh,
Improving the printing experience is something we hope to get to sometime in the next year. Sorry I can't give you a precise timeline for this, but it is definitely on our radar. Robert provides the current workaround/workflow above.
One workaround is to set guides on your X and Y planes of the layout. Right-click on the ruler in Layout View, select Add Guides, click Both for Orientation, Offset from edge for Placement and perhaps 0.5 for the Margin (or whatever you feel is appropriate.). 4 guidelines will be added to your layout. Then you may create your map inside of those guides.
Any idea when Tom? I'm getting ready to print an E size print and I have no way to know if the layout is correct and I wont be trying to print in the margin. Is there a workaround for this? I thought the margins were built in but I can't tell on a layout this large.
I believe elements "snap" to the margin (it's one of the software built-in guides) at least in 2.2.1 but I too would like the margins to show or at least provide a way to look a print preview. I don't like that I could potentially have elements past the margin line and only discover my error when the plotter starts to print it out.
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