Using: ArcPro 3.6.1
I'm currently having a two-fold problem when trying to export a layout to pdf (to then edit in Illustrator). The layout includes county boundary polygons, project boundary polygons, a point feature class symbolized as a heatmap, and the associated elements.
Immediately upon export with the heatmap layer and legend, I receive this error: Capability not supported in export format, some content is being rasterized. I assume this is because the sparse end of the heatmap ramp fades to 100% transparency, which was supposedly addressed with BUG-000163691 in 3.4. This is not the first time I’ve exported a heatmap of this particular dataset and previous versions are smooth, whereas this one shows breaks in the transparency and creates a bullseye effect.
Focusing on this issue allowed me to notice another: any and all of my lines/polygons are severely wonked. In the screenshot, the black lines are my project polygons and the grey background ones are my county polygons. I cannot stress enough how much they are not supposed to look like that. The project boundaries are based on the National Grid and are straight lines and yet the export messes them up. I even went in and generalized all the vertices to make it simpler, and it still did not matter.
Everything is in the same coordinate system. I’ve tried exporting to cloud storage and local storage. I’ve changed my hardware antialiasing settings and switched through rendering engines. I have cleared my local cache. I’ve tried rasterizing just the heatmap layer upon export. I recreated the layout in a new project. None of my layers are in groups with any transparencies. I’ve tried every variation on export and nothing works. Exporting this layout as an image is useless to me – I need to be able to open it in Illustrator.
