Use this dialog box to convert existing text objects to an annotation text feature layer. The resulting layer appears in the Display Manager and can be saved and reused with other maps
Source Text
- Select All Text
- Convert all text objects in the file.
- Select Manually
- Click
to temporarily close the dialog box so you can select the text objects in the map. Press Enter when you are finished. - Filter Selection
- Filter the selected entities based on layer. Enter the names of the layers to include, or click the button to select from a list. Entities that are not on the selected layers are filtered out of the conversion process. The status line shows how many entities are selected and how many have been filtered out.
Target
- Select The Target
- Select the target feature class or click New File to create a new file-based data store for the layer. You can store the text layer as an SDF or SQLite file.