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Concerning the plot performance, issues can arise with individual Map Services, Theme Groups or Layers. It is therefore necessary to clarify, whether there is a WebOffice 10 R3 - specific plot issue, or if problems are caused through an ArcMap Export. It is advisable to make am ArcMap Export to evaluate how much time it may take to obtain the exported file/printout. In that case, the print format should be the same for reasons of comparison.

 

Note: The comparison does not have to be necessarily significant, because there is also no merging of map services during an ArcMap Export.

 

Please see Chapter Generate a print MXD for performance analysis for more information. An Mxdperfstat for diagnosis can also help to eliminate plot issues before printing.

 

In case transparencies are used, all data (i.e. raster and vector data) below the first layer with transparencies will be rasterized. Partial rasterization will also be done when using Markup. Please refer also to Chapter Projects including layers with transparency for more information.

 

Note: A slow print performance can occur because Esri's ArcMap "relates'" takes more time since the introduction of ArcGIS 10.x compared to ArcGIS 9.x.

 

Optional workaround: Remove as many 'relates' (i.e. relationship classes) as possible, because they have direct influence on the actual print result. The fewer relationship classes are to be processed by the plot engine, the more likely it is to improve the general performance of the Layer for printing. This happens due to the fact that the tables on which the relate may be based on are not within the current MXD, or if the tabular data is used in WebOffice.

 

There might also be a limitation regarding the applied reference scale which is defined in the MXD. It is absolutely necessary to define a particular reference scale for all data frames. The reference scale will consider the graphical size and extent of symbolized features as they appear at the reference scale, and will thus fix the size for symbols and text to draw the desired height and width at the referenced map scale. However, the plot output cannot deliver the desired results if the reference scale is not set properly. This is very important as the set reference scale will be used for the main Map Service. Please refer also to Chapter Dataframe properties affecting for more information.

 

Furthermore, if captions or labels on the printout are cut-off and GeoOffice Renderer is used, it is advisable to check in the Layer Properties --> Symbology --> GeoOffice --> Others, whether in the tab "Others" the parameter is set to "Display always on top’".

 

 

It can also happen that some parts of the data to be plotted, the symbology for parcel-numbers, as well as the caption/letter symbology is cut-off by the plot engine while it is rasterized. This is mostly due to the layers setup, the way how the data in the layers is configured (e.g. transparencies, reference scales) or certain background data is feed into the data frame. Hence, it may be beneficial to have the affected caption/letter symbology be displayed on top through the ‘Display always on top' setting to eliminate the issue, and thus enhance the plot performance.