Timeline for Export ArcMap cartographic representation to a symbol?
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| Feb 10, 2014 at 19:19 | vote | accept | matt wilkie | ||
| Jan 31, 2014 at 18:35 | comment | added | matt wilkie | Vote for ArcGIS Idea - Cartographic Representation editor as default symbol editor, & import/export SVG, EMF | |
| Jan 31, 2014 at 18:15 | answer | added | matt wilkie | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 30, 2014 at 22:45 | comment | added | matt wilkie | @DPierce and Dan C: inserting .png doesn't work as Arcmap is ignoring background transparency. Guess I'll have to go through the work of creating a vector version (and determining which filetype Arcmap will handle properly). | |
| Jan 30, 2014 at 21:20 | comment | added | Mapperz♦ | You could make it a truetype or OpenType font and load that as a symbol. high-logic.com/font-editor/fontcreator.html - There is a downside that font needs to be installed on all PC's that need to show to display/print | |
| Jan 30, 2014 at 21:08 | comment | added | DPierce | @matt wilkie The raster scaling may not be very noticeable unless you are making the legend patch rather large. If you are, then you could rebuild/trace the figure in a vector editing software and save it as an .emf and use that in place of a high-res png. That would take a little more time, however. | |
| Jan 30, 2014 at 21:03 | comment | added | matt wilkie | @DPierce, no I hadn't thought of thought. It may be my last resort (bitmaps scale very poorly relative to vectors) | |
| Jan 30, 2014 at 21:02 | comment | added | Dan C | This doesn't solve the underlying problem, but if you're not using a live legend, you could just take a screenshot of the good symbol and paste it into your layout on top of the existing legend symbol. | |
| Jan 30, 2014 at 21:01 | history | edited | matt wilkie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
convert legend to graphics doesn't work
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| Jan 30, 2014 at 21:01 | comment | added | DPierce | Have you considered shoehorning in a PNG screenshot of the symbol as a dummy layer with a picture marker symbol? | |
| Jan 30, 2014 at 20:52 | history | asked | matt wilkie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |