Layout editor

Insert/Edit Legend (ID point map + attributes)

Symbols as arrows

 

Insert or edit a legend for a point map with an ID domain and an attribute table, where the attributes are displayed as arrows. During display in a map window, in the Symbols as Arrows dialog box, you should have used the Color option to specify a Class column, so that the arrows are displayed in different colors according to the representation of the specified class column. The legend will be added to your layout.

The legend will consist of a number of colored arrows; the class names of the selected class column for the colors will appear as text. The arrows in the legend are always drawn with a width of 0.1 mm.

The point map in the map view should have been created as follows:

Dialog box options:

Number of columns:

Select the number of columns in which the legend should be displayed.

Code:

Select this check box to obtain the codes of the classes in the domain as legend text.

Name:

Select this check box to obtain the names of the classes in the domain as legend text.

Description:

Select this check box to obtain the description of the classes in the domain as legend text.

You can combine the Code, Name and Description for legend texts by selecting multiple check boxes.

 

 

Selectable classes:

The left hand list box lists all classes that are present in the domain.

You can select one or more classes and add them to the right hand list box by using the > button.

Selected classes:

The right hand list box lists the class names that will be shown in your legend. By default all class names that occur in the domain are listed.

You can hide one or more classes from the legend by using the < button, see below.

This list box also shows the order of the selected classes in the legend: drag individual classes up or down in the list.

To add one or more selected classes to the legend:

  • select one or more classes in the left hand list box
  • (to select multiple classes, press and hold down the Shift or the Ctrl key while selecting);

  • then press this > button.

The classes will be added to the bottom of the list in the right hand list box.

To remove one or more selected classes from the legend:

  • select one or more classes in the right hand list box (to select multiple classes, press and hold down the Shift key while selecting);
  • then press this < button.

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.

Box width/height ratio:

Type a value for the width/height ratio of the legend color boxes.

Tips:

  1. The order of the classes as appearing in the legend can be easily changed by dragging the classes in the right hand list box up or down to another position.
  2. 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. The font in which legend texts are displayed will be automatically adapted to the new size; the arrow sizes will remain the same.
  3. 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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