Greetings

Here is my original message:

I have a County photo index that has a couple of hundred soil maps in
tif image format hotlinked to it.  I would like to be able to use the
hotlink tool, click on the appropriate place on the index, have the
image appear so I can look at it and see if it has soil mapping in the
area I am interested in (All this I can do).  However, then I would like
to somehow have the hotlinked image exported to a layout for printing.
Does anyone have a script or extension that will accomplish this?

Thanks go to Russell Burdge, Matt Taylor and Kimberly Synder.  Here are
their suggestions.

Russell G. Burdge -- ONe suggestion would be using a screen capture
utility as a quick work around...there is also an extension on the
Arcscripts page called "Mapper" by Howie Sternberg, I haven't used this
extension but it might also work for you. It creates auto layouts from a
view that can be printed, then removes the temporary layout from the
project.  good luck

Matt Taylor -- You might check out Capture Express 2000 check out
www.cnet.com , search
under downloads.  This utility will capture windows, screen, etc... a
very handy asset.  This would allow you to print the hotlink image (as
is).

Kimberly Snyder -- I think you have to make an additional view of the
photo and put it in your
layout using the frame tool, that's the only way I've done it as of yet.

For me, adding the image as a theme was the best of the 3, but had
problems as well.

I found an extension and a script that will make this happen in a
roundabout way.  The extension called Image label works with hotlinked
images.  It will essentially paste the hotlinked image into the view.  I
could then zoom to the image graphic and play around with the scale to
make it fit properly in the layout.  An easier way around that however
was to use the script called Viewframerect.  This script takes your
selected graphic and puts it into it's own view and zooms to the extent
of the graphic.  At the same time it puts the graphic view into a layout
you select.  So the view is automatically inserted into your layout.
This works pretty well, to use both the extension and the script in
tandem.

I had some scale problems to be concerned about in that I needed the
image to be exactly 8.5 inches wide in order to preserve the original
scale of my image.  I also wanted the image to be in a certain place on
the layout.   Since this project is going to be used by a third party
not too familiar with ArcView, I did not want them to go through the
hassel of making the image line up exactly where I needed it to be.  In
the end, I am going to use the Picture Frame tool in the layout window.
The user can click on this tool, draw out a square frame exactly the
width of my 8.5 x 11 inch paper, and a dialog pops up asking where the
picture is.  You select the image, and it pops it exactly within and to
the full extent of the picture frame boundary.  This way involves the
least number of instructions needed to make it work.  I still would like
to see a one button method of making this work, but until that time I'll
carry on this way.

Roger


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Roger G. DeKett, Soil Scientist
USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service
1153 Main Street Suite 2
St. Johnsbury, VT 05819-2734
Phone: 802-748-3885 Ext. 111
Fax:   802-748-1621
Email: roger.dekett@vt.usda.gov
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