Hi Elizabeth, I am running Arc 10 on my iMac. I use VMWare Fusion and it seems to work just fine, if a little slowly (I think mainly because of data access, a lot of my data are on an external drive). I had been using a PC, and so far I use all of my old spatial data and .mxd files from an external drive where I'd backed up my PC (the drive is unavailable to the Mac side when VMWare is up), and I'm storing new data and .mxd on my Mac drive in the "Documents" folder (which you can access from both the Mac and the VMWare side simultaneously). Not a clean set-up, I'm aware, but I haven't had the motivation to move all of the external drive stuff onto my Mac drive. I am not storing anything in the virtual machine because I didn't want to allocate a lot of space for it (I'm using 100 Gb) and I wanted to access the data even when the VM is off. Also I chose not to do the Boot Camp partition because, even though Arc would probably run faster if I booted up natively in Windows, it just wasn't worth it for me to deal with the extra hassle. As for migrating the workstation settings, I just went ahead and set it up again, I didn't have a lot of customized settings, and my folder structures are all the same because they're on my external drive. There were some quirks in getting the shared "Documents" folder to work properly so that I could see my data from the virtual Windows machine, but fixing it was easy enough that I have forgotten how I did it. I hope this helps!
Jen ----- Jennifer Davison Research Scientist, College of the Environment University of Washington 1492 NE Boat Street, Suite 200, Room 218 PO Box 355355 Seattle, WA 98195-5355 206-616-5727 www.coenv.washington.edu Please consider the environment before printing this message -----Original Message----- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:05:46 -0700 To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Uw-gis-l Digest, Vol 105, Issue 13 >Send Uw-gis-l mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/uw-gis-l >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > >You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of Uw-gis-l digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. RE: Exporting data driven pages results in loss of imagery > (Michael August) > 2. Arc on a Mac (elizabeth barnett) > 3. Re: Exporting data driven pages results in loss of imagery > (Charles Kiblinger) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:05:01 -0700 >From: "Michael August" <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: [UW-GIS-L] Exporting data driven pages results in loss of > imagery >To: "UW - GIS Discussion and Support" <[email protected]> >Message-ID: > <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > >You might also consider turning off all the "layers" in the pdf settings, >both the geospatial and pdf layers, I find that: > >not using any image compression> exporting the map as pdf> then opening >and "reducing document size"(if necessary) in Acrobat works pretty well >as a workflow. > >Michael S. August, L.G. >Associated Earth Sciences, Inc. > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] >[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Phil >Hurvitz >Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 4:19 PM >To: UW - GIS Discussion and Support >Subject: Re: [UW-GIS-L] Exporting data driven pages results in loss of >imagery > >Just a guess, but sometimes when data sets are being projected on the >fly they look "fine" but don't behave well in other ways. Are all the >data sets in your map saved in the same coordinate system? If not, try >making projected copies that all match in coord sys. > >-P. > >************************************************************** >Philip M. Hurvitz, PhD >Urban Form Lab | 1107 NE 45th Street, Suite 535 | Box 354802 >University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-4802, USA >[email protected] | http://gis.washington.edu/phurvitz >"What is essential is invisible to the eye." -de Saint-Exup?ry >************************************************************** > >On 4/18/2011 3:27 PM, Meredith Gerhardt wrote: >> Hi GIS users, >> I'm having issues of lost or fragmented imagery when I export my data >> driven pages in ArcMap10 as PDFs. The imagery consists of about 100 >> TIFF files which I built pyramids for. They appear intact in the ArcMap >> window but when I export to PDF I get wedges of the images missing. >> Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this? >> Thanks in advance. >> Meredith >> >> -- >> Meredith Gerhardt >> 5741 38th Ave NE >> Seattle WA 98105 >> Ph. 619. 991.1800 >> Fx. 206. 420. 2862 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Uw-gis-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/uw-gis-l >_______________________________________________ >Uw-gis-l mailing list >[email protected] >http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/uw-gis-l > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 2 >Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:27:36 -0700 >From: elizabeth barnett <[email protected]> >Subject: [UW-GIS-L] Arc on a Mac >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > >Any strong opinions on whether Fusion or Parallels works better to run >Arc on a Mac? Also, any advice or tips out there on migrating a former PC >Arc workstation (and data) to a Mac? I am optimistic that this is fairly >straight forward. I hope. > >thanks! > > >=================== >Elizabeth A. Barnett > >U.S. Geological Survey >c/o University of Washington >Dept of Earth & Space Sciences >Box 351310 >Seattle, WA 98195-1310 > >office: 321 Old Oceanography Bldg. >phone 206-553-0686 >fax 206-553-8350 > > > > >-------------- next part -------------- >An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >URL: >http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/uw-gis-l/attachments/20110419/a >0841322/attachment-0001.html > >------------------------------ > >Message: 3 >Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:32:27 -0700 >From: Charles Kiblinger <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [UW-GIS-L] Exporting data driven pages results in loss of > imagery >To: UW - GIS Discussion and Support <[email protected]> >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > >Not sure if this is the same thing, but I have had raster data (imagery) >come out with white "holes" or dropouts in PDFs. I have found lowering the >DPI to 600 or even 300 and setting PDF "Output Image Quality" to "Normal" >or >"Fast" usually prevents it. Of course the raster image gets more >compressed >that way so it looks a little worse.... > > >On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Michael August <[email protected]> >wrote: > >> You might also consider turning off all the "layers" in the pdf >>settings, >> both the geospatial and pdf layers, I find that: >> >> not using any image compression> exporting the map as pdf> then opening >>and >> "reducing document size"(if necessary) in Acrobat works pretty well as a >> workflow. >> >> Michael S. August, L.G. >> Associated Earth Sciences, Inc. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Phil Hurvitz >> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 4:19 PM >> To: UW - GIS Discussion and Support >> Subject: Re: [UW-GIS-L] Exporting data driven pages results in loss of >> imagery >> >> Just a guess, but sometimes when data sets are being projected on the >> fly they look "fine" but don't behave well in other ways. Are all the >> data sets in your map saved in the same coordinate system? If not, try >> making projected copies that all match in coord sys. >> >> -P. >> >> ************************************************************** >> Philip M. Hurvitz, PhD >> Urban Form Lab | 1107 NE 45th Street, Suite 535 | Box 354802 >> University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-4802, USA >> [email protected] | http://gis.washington.edu/phurvitz >> "What is essential is invisible to the eye." -de Saint-Exup?ry >> ************************************************************** >> >> On 4/18/2011 3:27 PM, Meredith Gerhardt wrote: >> > Hi GIS users, >> > I'm having issues of lost or fragmented imagery when I export my data >> > driven pages in ArcMap10 as PDFs. The imagery consists of about 100 >> > TIFF files which I built pyramids for. They appear intact in the >>ArcMap >> > window but when I export to PDF I get wedges of the images missing. >> > Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this? >> > Thanks in advance. >> > Meredith >> > >> > -- >> > Meredith Gerhardt >> > 5741 38th Ave NE >> > Seattle WA 98105 >> > Ph. 619. 991.1800 >> > Fx. 206. 420. 2862 >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Uw-gis-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/uw-gis-l >> _______________________________________________ >> Uw-gis-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/uw-gis-l >> _______________________________________________ >> Uw-gis-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/uw-gis-l >> >-------------- next part -------------- >An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >URL: >http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/uw-gis-l/attachments/20110419/4 >2079c71/attachment-0001.html > >------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Uw-gis-l mailing list >[email protected] >http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/uw-gis-l > > >End of Uw-gis-l Digest, Vol 105, Issue 13 >***************************************** _______________________________________________ Uw-gis-l mailing list [email protected] http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/uw-gis-l
