Print template scalebars

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March 27, 2013 12:39

Hi

Is there a way to produce scalebars in print templates that always have sensible numbers e.g. 0,0.5,1 or 0,5,10 etc.  It seems to be nothing short of a work of art to build a scalebar (compared to a drag and drop and simple resize in ArcGIS).  I am using pre-determined scales for printing, but you still get some odd numbers.  Just like there is a way to dynamically resize the legend depending on the content/size of the key, can something be done for the scalebar?

Thanks

Chris

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  John Nerge

  April 01, 2013 21:57

  Chris,

  You can set the output format property of the Scale Bar Distance control to round to the nearest integer, tenth of a point, etc. I'd be surprised if there isn't some way to set the size of the Scale Bar as a percent of the Map Scale by adding some code to the script tab, but unfortunately I don't have a code sample for that to offer.

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