Layout editor

Insert/Edit Legend (Value point map)

Sized symbols

 

Insert or edit a legend for a value point map. During display in a map window, you should have used the Stretch check box in the Symbol dialog box so that point values are displayed on different sizes depending on their value. The legend will be added to your layout.

A legend for a value point map consists of a sized symbols (e.g. proportional to the point values) and corresponding point values.

Dialog box options:

Upward:

Select this check box when the legend should display the largest value at the top and the smallest value at the bottom.

Clear this check box when the legend should display the smallest value at the top and the largest value at the bottom.

Symbols:

Select the number of symbols that should appear in your legend. The legend can display 2 up to 7 different symbol sizes with corresponding values.

Font name:

Select the font in which the legend texts should appear; you can select an installed font from the list.

Font size:

Type a value for the font size (pt) in which your legend texts should appear.

Bold:

Select this check box to have legend texts appear in bold.

Italic:

Select this check box to have legend texts appear in italics.

Use units:

Select this check box if the value domain of this point map has a unit specification (e.g. m3/ha/y) and when the units should appear in the legend. For more information, see Edit a value domain (dialog box).

Tips:

  1. To adapt the symbol sizes both in the point map and in the legend, or to have round values appear in your point legend:
  2. Do not forget to save the changed map view.

  3. In the Layout editor, a legend can be sized by dragging for instance one of the corner size handles of a selected legend to a new position. The mouse pointer changes into a double-sided arrow when at the right position to start dragging. Only the font used by the legend will be automatically adapted to the new size; the symbol sizes will remain.
  4. To store annotation, you need to save the layout. Open the File menu and choose the Save or the Save As command. You can also click in the white space of your layout, and click the Save button in the standard toolbar.

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