Latest Contributions by TomBole

Hi Dan,  We are currently unaware of any issues accessing the Format Legend pane. This includes the scenario of importing an MXD. My first inclination would be that this issue is specific - that is accessing the Format Legend pane is not uniformly broken. Are you seeing this behavior with all your layouts?  Or just with this particular layout? Or just with any layout that you've imported this particular MXD? In this layout are you able to open the format pane for other map surrounds such as the scale bar or the north arrow? Have you contacted Esri Support? They are better equipped to handle troubleshooting steps and gather bug data. They can be contacted at https://support.esri.com/en/contact-tech-support. Tom ... View more

Hi Jakub,  I believe the issue is moving subgroups. For example, when I convert a legend into a set of graphics I get a "parent" group element that holds all the legend graphics and a subgroup for each layer. The actual graphical elements, such as legend patch and text, are within each subgroup. In this example, there is a parent group called "Legend" with a number of subgroups. There are 846 individual elements within 104 subgroups in this test layout. My goal was to move all the elements to the right side of the layout page. With no groups involved, Pro took about 14 seconds to select all the elements and about 6 seconds to move. When I selected and moved the parent group "Legend" the results were about 5 seconds to select and 8 seconds to move. Not lightning fast, but not horrible. However, if I move selected subgroups ArcGIS Pro's performance is indeed poor. In my example I selected each of the 104 subgroups (which took about 5 seconds). OK, so far. But when I moved them - it took more than 5 minutes for Pro to finish the move! Ugh!  This is a bad bug. I'll get this into the queue for immediate investigation. Thank you for helping us identify the issue.  Tom ... View more

Hi Jakub,  Thanks for the feedback.  I'll investigate the selecting/drawing issue with text and graphics in the Layout. Hopefully, this is something we can address with 2.4. Thanks,  Tom ... View more

Hi Jakub,  Thanks again for the screenshots. I can reproduce with Calibri. This definitely needs to be investigated and should be considered as a BUG. I think there is enough time to get this resolved for 2.4.  If this is something you want to track would you be able to submit an issue to Technical Support? Thanks,  Tom ... View more

Hi Jakub,  Thanks for the screenshots.  I don't think this is an issue with the size of the offset.  I think this is an issue with the bounding box of the chosen font and how it works with the offset. Below I've set a similar grid to yours where the label offset is 0.03 in.  The labels are positioned correctly. Here are labels, with the same 0.03 in offset, using Georgia Bold Italic. I've converted the labels to graphics and selected them to show the bonding box. I've also added a text graphic (same font) with all the numbers to show how the position of the numbers can be different as to their relative position to the top & bottom of the bounding box.  As you can see this results in an inconsistent placement relative to the map frame. What are the symbol settings for your labels?  What font are you using?  Are there any other settings like call outs?   If you use a different font for your labels, like Arial (I think this is the default font when you add a grid), do you still see the offset placement difference? Thanks,  Tom ... View more

Ian & Harvey,  I agree that having to refocus the application can be irritating. We are working to correct erroneous focus shifting when working in the Layout View for the 2.4 release. In the meantime, if the shifting focus becomes intolerable, you may want to consider working within an activated Map View when making changes to layers. To do this right-click the map frame on the Layout View you want to work with and click Open. This opens a Map View of the map (contained by the Map Frame). You can dock the Map View Next to Layout View to see both. Make the Map View the active view when you make changes to your layer(s). The layout will update automatically with these changes. Please note that the extents of the Map Frame and the Map View are NOT linked. If you wish to apply an extent that you have in a Map View you can create a bookmark. You can then use the bookmark in the Layout View. The bookmark will be applied to the current default Map Frame. If you have multiple Map Frames the current default will be the one in bold the Contents pane. To change the current default select the Map Frame you want, then apply the bookmark. Here are some help topics you might find useful. https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/layouts/work-with-a-map-on-a-layout.htm https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/mapping/navigation/bookmarks.htm Hope this helps,  Tom ... View more

Map clipping is honored by the layout at 2.3.  It is Map Series support for clipping that is not available until 2.4. ... View more

We have worked on improving the quality of Layout file (.pagx) functionality for 2.4. For example, 2.4 will have the ability to reset the source table for a Table Frame. Unfortunately, the ability to customize the insert layout gallery is something we did not have time for at 2.4. We hope to get to in the near future. Tom ... View more

Richard,  You can have multiple layouts in a project. Sounds like you just have an invalid layout. We have seen this in rare instances. To work around this you should delete the invalid layout from the project. You can do this by right-clicking the bad layout in the Catalog pane to open the context menu and then selecting Delete. Once the bad layout has been removed you can try adding a new layout. Hope this helps,  Tom ... View more

Got it.  Thanks! ... View more

Hi Thomas,  Sorry It has taken a bit to respond to this.  Have you contacted technical support to follow up on the issue that I could not reproduce?  Tom ... View more

Hi Michael,  Currently, the best way to share a map series is by exporting the map series to a file (ex: PDF). Here is the help topic if you need additional information - https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/layouts/export-options.htm. The ability to print a map series using ArcGIS Pro is still being worked on. The workaround here is to export to PDF and then print the PDF. Hope this helps,  Tom ... View more