Hello Listers,
Here are the answers to my question.  Thanks to Oliver, Nanci, Mario, and
Sani.  I really appreciate you input particularly to Oliver who had a detail
explaination about symbols.
Cheer!
Nelson

At 07:16 PM 11/27/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>Hello,
>How can you rotate a shapefile symbol in the GISView and the Table of
>Contents View.
>I would appreciate any help.
>Nelson


Hi,
pressuming that you are speaking off Point-Symbols there are two cases to
have a look in:

1) The Point-symbol is a simple symbol.
In this case its easy: You can give the Symbol a static rotation by typing
in an Angle in the Symbol-window or you can create a field in the
Attribute-Table (type number) where you enter an angle for each feature. In
this case you have to choose this field as rotation field in the
legend-editor by clicking the ADVANCED-Button in the lower left corner.

2) You have a composite Symbol
This means it has at least two layers (forground and background). In this
case you can not rotate them!
A workaround is to use the layers as simple Symbols and give the Theme two
or more Legends, one for each Layer.
For example: You want to use an triangle with a black outline and a colored
area which is created from the ESRI Geometric Symbols-Font (such a Symbol is
in the default-palette: #10). You can convert the font to symbols in the
symbolwindow by choosing the font and clicking CREATE MARKER at the bottom
of the "symbolwindow". Then you can use the outline of the triangle as
legend of the top theme and the area of the Symbol as Legend for the
bottom-theme (by the way: now you can also change the color of the outline
which is not possible if you use the composed symbol). Now choose the
rotation as described in 1)

If there are any questions about this feel free to contact me. Hope you can
understand my bad english at all.

Oliver Raskop



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If it's a point symbol, you can rotate it via the legend editor:

Double click on the Theme in the legend,
Double click on the feature's symbol in the legend editor, this will
bring up the Marker Palette
Adjust the angle in the palette window to suit your needs.

Regards,
Mario Crociata

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Dear Nelson,

In AV View,go to the "Graphics" menu. Select
"Properties". Specify your "Rotation Angle" and click
"OK".

Hope this helps.


Sani

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I think that in the basic, default point symbol pallette that comes up, the
first several symbols (triangles, squares, hexagons, etc) cannot be rotated.
But the others can be rotated.  You may just have to keep clicking on
different symbols and see which ones will allow you to enter a rotation
angle.

Hope this helps!

Nanci