arcgis-10.2arcgis-desktopexportpdfpolygon
I realised that exporting a huge amount of building polygons (in my case 86,000 polygons) to a A2 PDF within ArcGIS 10.2.2 the polygons get unacceptably jagged or even reshaped. It gets a bit better if the dpi value is set to a higher number (e.g. 1000) but it's still not the desired quality.
Polygons within my ArcMap data frame:
Polygons after export to a PDF (400 dpi):
Is there a way to avoid this problem?
I have had a similar problem where exported PDF would be larger than should be considering the data. In the Export window, I went to the Format tab and changed the Picture Symbol to Vectorize and in the Advance tab I changed the Layers and Attributes drop down to None. Things that used to be in the 50 Megabyte range were now under a Megabyte.
It will possibly be a bit of testing to find what works best for you.
Try adjusting your DPI down until it produces a better file size but still readable, or adjust the Raster quality down slightly. Then combine these two acceptable settings and determine if the file size is small enough yet readable.
My settings are set to 200dpi and image quality to 1:2 (between Normal and Best).
The Format tab on the also has options for compression and quality.
Check if you output layers, georeference info, or attribution (on the Advanced tab) and turn off any that aren't required as these can make the PDFs very large.
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Finally, with the help of the comments above and try and error I could minimalize the error. The following has helped: