I’ve been asked to automate the exporting of metadata from ESRI feature classes into .pdf files. We don’t want the .xml files, rather a .pdf version of what you see in the Description panel in Catalog. Manually we can achieve this by using the print button in the description panel tools and then using the cutepdf print drive. But I don’t see a print option for metadata in arcpy, all I see are options for exporting to .xml files.
In ArcObjects the IGxView object which looks like it could do what I need.
So my questions are
- Is here a way to do what I want in arcpy?
- Should I use ArcObjects instead and if so will IGxView do what I want?