Latest Contributions by VincentLaunstorfer

Thanks Robert for the File --> Save Other As -- >  Reduce File Size... I just tried it on an A1+ poster which was 37,965 KB and is now 10,097 KB. A good improvement!  But if I try "Save as PDF, optimized", it produces the exact same size 10,097 KB. However, the PDF Optimizer dialog box gives much more control on how to optimize. Also, as mentioned previously, in Acrobat Pro, resterizing the .pdf with Tools pan -> Print Production tab -> Flattener Preview gives a 3,368 KB file size for the same poster. But it is now rasterized like a .png and just "encapsulated" in .pdf to be convenient to use... ... View more

Looking forward testing Annotation tools in ArcGIS Pro 2.1... ... View more

Thanks Shelley. I tested that before but it was clearly inefficient! Hundreds of annotations moved that way drive you mad. In the interim, I do the most I can in Pro and still do editing in ArcMap 10.5.1 ... View more

In addition to edting leader lines, accent bars are not available in ArcGIS Pro 2.0 for info... ... View more

Thanks for these explanation. However, to me editing derived data is not desirable, neither good practice. This process is for the time being far too slow for editing and symbol alignments are not possible. Perhaps symbols overrides will solve the problem with future ArcGIS Pro releases and hopefully with good performance. It looks like ArcGIS Pro has not (yet) been designed for users with traditional mapping workflows, focusing on ArcGIS Online instead. In addition to editing symbols, editing annotation lacks lots of basics control, such as leader lines ending, accent bars not available, graticule, extent indicators for insets... https://community.esri.com/thread/203823-arcgis-pro-20-how-to-move-end-of-leader-line  In order to take advantage of the improved graphic engines of ArcGIS Pro and better PDF exports, I prepare all my layers in Pro for symbolizaztion and I continue all my symbols and annotations editing, as well as graticule, in ArcMap 10.5.1. After, I compile all my layers in Adobe Illustrator. Not ideal but it works! ArcGIS Pro - Export to Illustrator  ... View more

In addition to my post and after some investigation, opening Annotation Feature Class containing symbols in ArcGIS Pro is not possible to edit (in the Edit mode under the Contents pane, there is an exclamation mark saying "Annotation is not editable". Also, upgrading the Annotation Feature Class containing symbols fails. As for the Cartography Toolbox, in particular the Add Representations, is not yet implemented in ArcGIS Pro: Tools that are not available in ArcGIS Pro—Appendices | ArcGIS Desktop  This clearly leaves no option to edit (move) manually symbols in the map to produce and end product! To me, it makes ArcGIS Pro unusable... ... View more

Thanks for that. Unfortunately, I cannot decipher all the python Five Color Tool, but I still cannot understand either why it references to certain Desktop10.5 toolboxes... I cannot point out lines of code asking such toolboxes. Where you comment helped is with my own Python script. Some of them did not work in Pro, and just removing references to Desktop10.5 toolboxes references made my scripts working in Pro! #ArcGIS 10.5.1 #arcpy.AddToolbox("C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.5\ArcToolbox\Toolboxes\Analysis Tools.tbx") #arcpy.AddToolbox("C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.5\ArcToolbox\Toolboxes\Data Management Tools.tbx") ... View more

I finally took some time to try out the Five Color Tool. In ArcGIS Pro 2.0 it produced an error whereas in ArcGIS Desktop 10.5.1 it worked well. Although the tool did not behave as expected. Ii only calculated integers from 0 to 3, just like if integer 4 was not existing! However, as shown below, is there anything wrong with the geoprocessing framework (Python in particular) in ArcGIS Pro? Or any wrong settings on my machine? ... View more

Hi, I confirm Marco's comment as I had to investigate this issue last week. ArcGIS Pro produces true vector in .pdf output and not the vectors "snapped to dpi coordinate grid" set with the dpi parameter. Dpi in ArcGIS Pro only matters for raster layers in the .pdf. ArcGIS Pro .pdf exports are much smarter. In the files attached, when zoomed in Acrodat Reader at 500%, you can clearly see the ArcMap snapping effect. As a result, ArcGIS Pro produces .pdf files much larger than ArcMap. For my test map, ArcMap output 2Mb vs ArcGIS Pro 25Mb! For the time being, I experimented 2 workarounds: *In Adobe Illustrator, I imported the 25mb .pdf and just resaving as .pdf reduces the file size down to 13Mb! Then, simplifying line vectors by only 1% and the newly exported .pdf was about 7Mb. However, what is the effect of only 1% simplification in terms of actual vector shifts (and actual shift in meters)? Is it acceptable? For printed maps, you can hardly notice the 1% simplification and it removes about 80% of the vertex. But I would prefer to apply this vector simplification when exporting .pdf directly from ArcGIS Pro. Also, the Illustrator option leads to another problem, importing and manipulating .pdf file in Illustrator is cumbersome for simplification operation. And unfortunately, .ai exports are not available in ArcGIS Pro... *In Adobe Reader Pro, the only workaround I can suggest to keep and deliver a smaller .pdf for printing/viewing is to rasterize the .pdf. This can be done with flattening to 100% raster. Flattened at 300dpi, my new .pdf is 1.2Mb! A regular 300dpi .png export is 2.2Mb. Again, ArcGIS Pro could include an option to rasterize completely the .pdf for printing/viewing purposes. Hope this helps ... View more

Thanks, it helped. According to (in the Oracle section): Database connections in ArcGIS Pro—Help | ArcGIS Desktop  It looks like you either need: - Oracle database client installed OR - Oracle instance configured to allow Easy Connect The Easy Connect configuration looks the easiest. Need to try that... ... View more

Thanks Dan, but nothing more for the 4-color style, apart from a few comments at the end of the article. I wonder if there is a new script for ArcGIS Pro 2.0 (or ArcGIS 10.5.1) to compute integers in a field of a polygon file which are then used for symbolizing 4-color style... ... View more