ReportWorks | Tools | Pattern Legend
Use the Pattern Legend menu option or toolbar button to insert an index to patterns on an existing ReportWorks page. You can specify the program table to be placed, as well as dimensions and other appearance settings.
- Settings:
- Stratigraphy, Lithology or Pattern Index File: Click on the small open-file button to select the project's existing Lithology Types, Stratigraphy Types, Well Construction Types, Aquifer Types, Pattern Index table or external keyword file to be displayed in the legend.
- File (RockWorks or LogPlot): Choose this option if the legend is to display the contents of:
- A RockWorks "tab" file containing the pattern definitions. These can be exported from the Types tables in the RockWorks database.
- A LogPlot "key" file containing its list of keywords and associated patterns.
! Note that these are not Pattern Libraries, with a file name extension ".rwPat" or ".pat". Instead, these are the smaller ASCII tables that reference pattern numbers and display text labels and other information.
- Lithology: Choose this option if the legend is to display the contents of the current project's Lithology Types table.
- Stratigraphy: Choose this to display the contents of the current project's Stratigraphy Types table in the legend.
- Well Construction: Choose this to display the Well Construction Types in the legend.
- Aquifer: Choose this to display the Aquifer Types in the legend.
- Appearance: These settings define how the legend will look.
- Columns per row: This determines how many columns of pattern samples there will be in the legend.
- Pattern width, height: Type in a width and height, in decimal inches or centimeters, for the pattern blocks.
- Horizontal margin, Vertical margin: Type in distance, in inches or centimeters, between the columns and legend edges.
- Font: Click on this tab to adjust the legend's label settings.
- Font settings: Use the Font, Font Style, Font Size, Color, and Effects settings to establish these Windows-standard options.
- Outline Options: Click on the Outline tab in the Options window to access these settings:
- Style: Click in this drop-down box to choose the line style for the legend outline, such as None for no outline, Solid for for a solid outline, or Dashed for a dashed outline.
- Color: Choose the outline color by clicking in the color box and making your selection.
- Width: If the style is set to Solid, you can designate a line width by typing in an integer value, with 0 equaling thin lines, widening as the integer increases. Non-solid lines (dashed, dot-dashed, etc.) are set automatically to a thin width.
- Create a new ReportWorks document or open an existing document as necessary.
- Click on the name of the layer into which you want to insert the pattern legend.
- Click on the Pattern Legend toolbar button or choose the Tools | Pattern Legend menu option.
- Use your mouse to position the cursor in the page where the one corner of the legend's rectangular area is to be placed, and click and hold the left mouse button to insert it.
- With the button still pressed in, drag to the location of the diagonal corner point, and release the mouse button. As you drag, you'll see a "rubber band" image of the shape's outline. You can orient the legend horizontally or vertically, and the orientation can be modified in the Options window. Once you release the button the pattern legend options will be displayed.
- Select the file to be displayed and its appearance, font, and outline options as described above, and click Apply to enforce these settings.
- Click Close to close the Pattern Legend Options window.
- You can resize the legend by first single-clicking on it to see its "handles." Then, click and hold on any of the handles on the corners or edges and drag to the new position. Release the mouse button when the rectangle edges are in the correct position.
- Reposition the entire pattern legend as you wish by clicking and holding anywhere on it and dragging it to the new location.
- Double-click on the legend to access its options, or right-click and choose Properties.
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