The Color Legend Attributes window is used to define or to modify the location, layer, and appearance for a color legend in a map or diagram. This window is displayed when you edit an existing color legend or insert a new legend into a map or diagram.
Appearance Options
- Plot Title: Insert a check here to include an upper row with a title. You can type the title text into the prompt box.
- Z-Values:
! If this legend was automatically generated by the program, based on your request to include a legend in the map or diagram, the Z-Values settings will be filled automatically, based on the range of data being represented in the map/diagram. If this is a new legend you're inserting, you need to manually specify these values since the legend isn't linked to any layer. See Colorfill Attributes to determine the range of values represented by the color contours.
- Minimum: This represents the minimum value to be displayed at the bottom of the legend.
- Maximum: This is the maximum value to be displayed at the top of the legend.
- Interval: This represents the interval at which color blocks and labels are to be displayed in the legend.
- Plot Border: Insert a check in this box to plot the outer border for the legend. Click on the line box to choose the style, thickness, and color for the border lines.
- Plot Rectangles: Insert a check here to plot a solid line perimeter around each color block. Click on the line box to choose the style, thickness, and color for the lines.
- Plot Tick Marks: Insert a check here to plot tick marks next to the color blocks. Click on the line box to choose the style, thickness, and color for the tick lines.
- Manually Specify Decimal Places: Use this setting to define the number of decimal places to be displayed in the value labels. If unchecked, the program will determine this automatically.
- Use Scientific Notation: Check this box for your real number values to be displayed using scientific notation.
- Descending Order: Use this check-box to plot high values at the top of the legend (checked) or low values at the top (unchecked).
- Prefix, Suffix: Use these options to define characters that should preceed and/or follow the labels, such as units ("ppm" or "feet" or "tons").
- Color Scheme: Use these settings to define how the color blocks are to be drawn. (More.)
- Font: Choose the font style to be used by selecting it from the drop-down listing. The default is the font that is selected under Preferences | General Program Settings
Dimensions Options
- Use these settings to define the dimensions of different items in the Legend, as a percent of the size of the legend. The items are defined as percentages so that you can drag and resize the legend interactively, and the text items and color blocks will rescale automatically.
Position Options
- Layer: Use this setting to select the layer to which the color legend is to be associated. See Working with Layers for more information.
- Corner Points: The position of the legend can be defined by editing these coordinates or by interactively moving/resizing the legend.
- West: This coordinate defines the left or western edge for the legend.
- North: This coordinate defines the upper or north edge for the legend.
- East: This coordinate defines the right or east edge of the legend.
- South: This coordinate defines the lower or south edge of the legend.
General Options
- Visible: Insert a check in this box for the color legend to be visible in the drawing or map. Remove the check-mark to hide the legend.
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