Latest Contributions by JohnSobetzer

Maybe ArcMap - Options - DataView - Default Labeling Properties will help with the default font.  http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.3/tutorials/3D_analyst/3D_9_7.htm may help with a label symbol. You can also go to the drawing toolbar's Drawing - Default Symbol Properties.  You could set this in a new project along with the the Default Labeling Properties, and then save the project in your templates folder for use in creating new projects. If you save your finalized symbology and labeling expressions as a layer file, then when you need to add that layer again to a project add the layer file instead. If you are talking about adding new layers to a project that haven't been previously symbolized and labeled, you might be able to first add a layer file that has the symbols and labels you want, and then re-source it to the new layer. ... View more

It's always safer to start and end an auto-complete polygon inside the polygon you are adding against, rather than relying on snapping. I do wish that the auto-complete and split polygon tools sketch, when it fails, didn't just completely vanish thereby losing all the work that has been done.  I'd much rather simply get an error message indicating that the current sketch couldn't add/split, and then have my sketch back so that I could make it work. ... View more

Drawing toolbar - Drawing dropdown list - Convert graphics to features. ... View more

You could convert it to a graphic, then right click on it and resize it in different ways in Properties - Size & Position while preserving the aspect ratio.  Then convert the graphic back to a shape. ... View more

You might try, if you haven't already the following.  The last is just off the top of my head and might easily be dismissed. 1. checking embed all document fonts in the pdf dialog box 2. using representations 3. moving your line feature down in the TOC and then applying just a bit of transparency so it gets rasterized 4. exporting to AI and working with your map there or in the free Inkscape. 5. printing to pdf using a pdf print driver 6. perhaps finding a way to convert your line symbols to markers or pictures. ... View more

I'm not knowledgeable enough about arcpy to do that, and fortunately didn't need to be either.  Here's a clumsy way you might get what you are looking for. The key additions that Drewsky made in the code involved the "ar".  In his code these two lines were the key to producing a properly geoereferenced tif that wasn't skewed since it got the actual pixels being used: ar = df.extent.height / df.extent.width arcpy.mapping.ExportToTIFF(mxd,r"C:\ImageTemp\" + str(pageNum) + ".tif",df,1024,1024*ar,48,True) I typically use 9036,9036*ar in my code and this produces pdfs that are 9036 x a number that depends on my window size.  (Right click on the tif in Windows Explorer - Properties - Details.)  If you run your code and look at a resulting tif you will see this second number.  In a batch I'm currently running it is 10339 in all the tifs.  If I didn't change the window size I could depend on that. ... View more

You have several options it seems to me, and all of them will involve some fudging.  I'd use copies. The first problem is that surveys differ and can differ a fair amount.  So abutting surveys likely won't match.  The second problem is the GPS can vary depending on crown coverage, satellites, etc.  Third changes in one area have ripple effects through a whole collection. One approach would be to move and rotate the individual shapes manually to best match their GPS, then assess how messy the result is overall. If it is pretty darn good you could snap points together or even integrate it.  Put it likely would be messy. A second would be to select all the shapes, then move and rotate the collection to best match up with the GPS.  I'd start with this. A third would be to do a spatial transformation.  They vary in how much they change the shapes.  You might try a similarity transform.  See http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/About_spatial_adjustment_transformations/001t000000tv000000/ ... View more

The split polygons tool on the Advanced Editing toolbar should work if you have selected all of them. ... View more

I can think of several options off the top of my head. 1. Tim's suggestion. 2. Save your symbology as a layer file.  Then in Layer Properties - Symbology use the Import button to import that layer symbology. 3. Alternately you can copy your old layer properly symbologized into your project, then import its symbology to your new one and then remove the old one. 4. Add the different symbols to your individual style so that the symbol name matches the field value.  Then when you add your shapefile in Layer Properties - Symbology - Categories choose Match symbols in a style and in the drop down select the field to be used. 5. If you can simply replace your old shapefile with the new one of the same name wherever it is stored, and then open the project. ... View more

So you want the zig zags and ArcMap is flattening them out?  You might check to be sure all the snapping is off.  In 10 there is the default snapping and the classic and you might still have the classic enabled.  Check all your tolerance settings not just the snapping; from any that were set in creating your layer or a topology, to those in the editor's options like the sticky move tolerance.    They may differ between your install and those on the other computer.  Note that those that involve number of pixels settings will hinge on how close you zoom in. ... View more

Since you have Adobe Pro, I would think the easiest thing to do is export to individual pdfs using DDP, which will give you the opportunity to get meaningful file names.  Then you can use Adobe's Combine - Merge Files Into a Single Pdf to create one "binder" pdf with bookmarks and layers with those names. If you didn't like the DDP output file names there is an excellent free file renamer simply called Bulk Rename Utililty.exe that can be used after export to quickly change the pdf file names prior to combining.  The binder also makes it very easy to check all your pdfs for errors, and if you find some after exporting individual fixes, you can either repeat the binder process and create a new one with the corrected pdfs, or use Adobe's  Document - Replace Pages to fix the Binder file.  I typically apply the PDF Optimizer and sometimes other post processing on the Binder at this point. ... View more

We heard about the add in but haven't tried it.  We were able to install Excell 2010 while keeping the 2003 install as well; it was an option in the installation process.  Our IT guy handled it but here's a link to a Microsoft site.  http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/keep-earlier-versions-of-office-programs-when-installing-office-2010-HA102597134.aspx  This method has worked very well with Excel 2010 and 2003.  I also kept an old Access and while having both works (with the 2010 version set to use the mdb format by default) sometimes I get the installer when switching between them; so I no longer use 2003.  I also have Libre Office installed and can use its spreadsheet to save to dbf. ... View more

Some possibilities that might help: http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/5300/how-to-divide-a-polygon-into-specific-sizes-using-arcgis http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=93&f=987&t=206832&mc=8#650906 There is a parcel editor toolbar split parcel tool that reportedly will split polygons.  I haven't used it. I suppose one could manually do something that visually may work (especially with thicker lines!) by creating a fishnet and then selecting the best two lines from it to use on any polygon (or group if they "line" up) with the split polygon tool. ... View more

There is a method developed by Hardolph.  See http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/6786-polyline-to-polygon?highlight=polygon I think the ET Geowizards polyline to polygon wizard is one of the free tools.  It installs as part of ArcGIS. XTools had a polyline to polygon tool that was one of its free ones.  It also installs as part of ArcGIS. QGIS, which is free, has a tool to convert polylines to polygons.  It is a separate program. ... View more