What's new in cartography for Esri Production Mapping (Production Mapping)

With this latest release of Esri Production Mapping, new features and enhancements have been included.

New at 10.2.2

• The PDF To TIFF tool was added to the Conversion toolset.
• The ApplyLayoutRules function was added to the ArcPyProduction site package. It applies layout rules to a map document to adjust page size and position of surround elements.

New at 10.2.1

The following enhancements have been made to the grid object in the Python site package.

• Creates a grid object using only a grid template XML file. Previously, grid objects required the grids and graticules features to be in the database.
• Provides access to scale and baseSpatialReference properties of a grid object.
• The baseSpatialReferencebaseSpatialReference method can now update a data frame based on a grid template XML. Previously, the method required the grids and graticules features to be in the database.
• The clip_to_graphics_extent optional parameter was added to the ExportToProductionPDF function and controls the clipping of output to the extent of the graphics on the page layout.
• The area_of_interest optional parameter was added to the updateDataFrameProperties method and defines the geometry that represents the area of the map. It is specifically used when the grid object is created with the grid template XML.

Grid designer

The Grids and Graticules Designer can now identify a grid component by selecting a grid feature in ArcMap. Previously, you could only select features in the Grids and Graticules Designer window and see the related features loaded from the database in the current map document. Now you can select features in the map document and see the related grid components in the Grids and Graticules Designer window.

Production PDF

Separation settings (InRIP settings) can now be explicitly added or removed from the Production PDF setting file and from the PDF export file itself.

New at 10.2

Python site package

With 10.2, new functions have been added to allow you to perform layer masking.

• EnableLayerMasking—Enables or disables masking functionality for a data frame
• MaskLayer—Configures and applies layer masking settings for a specific data frame

Page layout and elements

Enhancements were made to the Measure Layout tool to display the segment length above it as you measure items in the layout.

Cartographic editing

New tools have been added that allow you to view and hide invisible representations and unplaced annotation. The Show Invisible Representation And Annotation tool displays invisible representations and unplaced annotation in the map using the symbology defined. The Hide Invisible Representation And Annotation tool hides invisible representations and unplaced annotation so they are not visible in the map.