ArcPy Tutorial – Exporting and Editing Annotation Feature Class

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I would like to convert labels to annotations and make some advanced editing for these labels using ArcPy.

How would I do this?

I'm using a file geodatabase and ArcMap 10.

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Check out these earlier Q&As and a Help page:

Converts labels to annotation for layers in a map document based on a polygon index layer.

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You can use the Tiled Labels To Annotation Geoprocessing tool.

import arcpy

# Settings
scale = "30000"  
folder = "D:\Temp\LBL.gdb"  
arcpy.env.workspace = folder  

# Mapdocument
map = r"D:\Temp\MAP-LBL.mxd"  

# Local variables:
dataFrame = "Layer"  
grid = "Grid"  
group = "Group"  
suffix = "Anno"  
fid = "tile"  
link = "STANDARD"  # not linked = "STANDARD" / linked = "FEATURE_LINKED"   
unplace = "GENERATE_UNPLACED_ANNOTATION"  

# Process: Tiled Labels To Annotation
arcpy.TiledLabelsToAnnotation_cartography(map, dataFrame, grid, folder, group, suffix, scale, "", fid, "", "", link, unplace)

[GIS] Handle annotation layers with arcpy

ArcPy does not expose all of ArcObjects. From what I can tell, this is one of the many interfaces that are not exposed in ArcPy. Only Page Layout elements are exposed in arcpy: ListLayoutElements (arcpy.mapping)

If you need to do this your only choice is ArcObjects. If you want to use Python, see How do I access ArcObjects from Python?

Otherwise you might want to look for or create an ArcGIS Idea about this (the only relevant existing idea I found was this one).

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