{"id":2965938,"date":"2026-05-14T08:07:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=2965938"},"modified":"2026-05-14T10:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:42:12","slug":"arcgis-pro-layout-redesign-volume-2","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/mapping\/arcgis-pro-layout-redesign-volume-2","title":{"rendered":"ArcGIS Pro Layout Redesign volume 2"},"author":6971,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22941],"tags":[26451,27361,27981,780910,31201],"industry":[],"product":[36561],"class_list":["post-2965938","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","tag-cartography","tag-design","tag-layout","tag-poster","tag-print","product-arcgis-pro"],"acf":{"short_description":"Here's another speedrun at deconstructing and reconstructing a layout in ArcGIS Pro, stuffed with lots of design advice tidbits!","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>We geographers can dig pretty deep in the weeds of data collection and analysis, reveling in the fun of precision, process, statistics, even visualization. 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Simple scalebar with logical divisions.<br \/>\n<strong>4:41<\/strong> Leveling-up the overview with a simple custom map and a fun extent indicator.<br \/>\n<strong>5:08<\/strong> Topical photo with transparent background.<br \/>\n<strong>5:25<\/strong> Editing the style of the default map credits, and adding additional citations.<br \/>\n<strong>5:46<\/strong> There&#8217;s no one right way to make a map. 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