Screenshot of Individual Points.

[FlightDeck]

Hey all,

I have a list of points that I need to capture a screenshot of at a constant zoom level with each point centered in its screenshot. A zoom level of 1:1000 should be fine for my purposes. Output would ideally be PDF but other formats such as JPG would work as well. Is there an automated way to go about this or am I forced to manually screen shot each location?

[SteveCole · Accepted solution]

Spatial Map Series?

[FlightDeck]

Thanks, I've checked out the tool as recommended but, Spatial Map Series seems to have other prerequisite dependencies that I don't have setup. Is there not a simpler way? This seems like it should be a basic geoprocessing tool...Ie. put in the feature class to screenshot and the zoom level to take the screenshot at and output in the selected format maybe even use an attribute as the file name if possible...

[AdrianWelsh]

It really does look like a map series will do exactly what you're looking for it to do. The main prerequisite is a feature that will be what the series will go through. In your case, the point feature would be what you set the map series to, and it can then spit out a PDF (or JPG) for each point, set at the exact zoom level you want, and can name the PDF with the name of the point from the point's attributes. 

[FlightDeck]

Thanks, Still relatively new to ArcPro. In the video from the link, "Map Series" is selected from the "Insert" ribbon.  In my Insert ribbon I do not have this option.  

It is possible I don't have something setup correctly but given the examples and videos it looks to me like I have to jump through all of the hoops to setup Indexes and/or layouts which I also do not have experience doing.....yet. Can you offer any clarity on how I might still accomplish this without the Indexes/layouts?

[SteveCole]

One of the worst ESRI decisions has been switching to the context sensitive Ribbon user interface. If you aren't accessing a ribbon area from the correct application state, then the ribbon section you want will be greyed out or the specific tool you need will not visible.

The text description step by setp in the link I shared is a bit more specific. The first thing you have to do is create the layout, so in your screenshot, you would select Insert->New Layout and pick your desired page size (letter, etc). The layout should be open and then next you need to add the data frame onto the layout. Again, with the layout being the active tab, you would go Insert->Map Frames and select the map that you have set up that includes the point layer you want to base the map series off of.

Again, with the layout being the active tab in your project, the Insert->Map Series command (chosing the Spatial option in it) then brings up the options to actually set up the map series.

[SteveCole]

There are a number of other videos on YouTube about this so you can search out "arcgis pro spatial map series"