A number of you have written in to Ask a Cartographer wishing to know how to convert your font-based or EMF-based marker symbols to representation markers. Representation markers (introduced in ArcGIS 9.2) have a number of advantages over font- or graphics-based markers. For example,
you can create or edit their artwork while working in ArcMap or ArcCatalog, and they
can be used the geoprocessing framework. One geoprocessing tool engineered to work with cartographic representations which you might find particularly useful is the Detect Graphic Conflict tool, which tells you where the symbols on your map overlap one another. But first, many of you may need to convert a significant number of markers into representation markers. Read More...
