The second tab, Fitting Strategy, helps you answer the question, What can I do to a label to make it fit on the map? This tab allows you to control if and how the Maplex Label Engine will alter a label's placement or format when placing labels in crowded areas of the map. These options combine to offer a wide variety of label placements. You can specify curved or straight label placement, align labels with features or with the projection graticules, and set the word and character spacing within labels. Point, line, and polygon feature classes have different label position options. The first tab of the Placement Properties dialog box, Label Position, helps you answer the question, Where does the label go? This tab controls how a label is positioned with respect to a feature.
Maplex Label Engine placement properties Label Position The Label Manager is extended by the Maplex Label Engine to give you access to the advanced label placement properties. Toggles the label placement quality between fast and best Locks labels at their current size and positionĭisplays the labels that could not be placed on the map Opens the Label Weight Ranking dialog box so you can change label and feature weights Opens the Label Priority Ranking dialog box so you can change the priority order of labels Learn more about controlling white space and line breaks with the Maplex Label Engine Labeling toolbar buttons and their functions Button New controls for space characters and line breaks have been added to the Label Expression dialog box and can be found on the new Maplex tab. Learn more about Maplex Label Engine general settings New Maplex Label Engine general settings have been added to the Labeling Options dialog box and can be found on the new Maplex tab. Fast quality doesn't spend much time finding resolutions to label conflicts Best quality spends more time finding resolutions to label conflicts and places more labels on the map. The Placement Quality control has been added to the Labeling toolbar and allows you to control the quality of placement that the Maplex Label Engine performs.
Key Numbering displays a dialog box that allows you to create, delete, and modify key numbering groups for a map document. Learn more about abbreviation dictionaries Three new commands have been added to the Labeling menu: Abbreviation Dictionaries, Key Numbering, and Use Maplex Label Engine.Ībbreviation Dictionaries displays a dialog box that allows you to create, delete, and modify abbreviation dictionaries for a map document. When you enable the Maplex Label Engine, additional tools become available on the Labeling toolbar. You can also turn the Maplex Label Engine on or off for a given data frame from the Data Frame Properties dialog box on the General tab.