To display this dialog box, on the PRO tab, select Options and then click Legend Window.
Use the Legend Window Preferences dialog box to control the default settings for new Legend windows.
Legend Frame Defaults
The entries you make in this panel serve as the defaults for each legend as you create it. You can change these settings locally.
Title Pattern
Designates the text that displays at the top of each frame. Each occurrence of a '#' character will be replaced with the name of the map layer on which the frame is based.
For example, # Legend for layer States will produce the title States Legend. If you prefer to have Legend precede the layer name enter Legend of #. This will produce the title Legend of States. To create a title with the '#' character in it, precede it with a \ character. For example, \# of Customers will produce # of Customers.
Aa button
Invokes the Font Picker dialog box. This dialog box allows you to set the font used for the frame's title.
Subtitle Pattern
Designates subtitle text; uses the # symbol in the same manner as described in Title.
Aa button
Invokes the Font Picker dialog box. This dialog box allows you to set the font used for the frame's style name text.
Style Name Pattern
Designate the text that displays next to each symbol in a frame: use the % to include the symbol type point, line, and region, in the style name text. For example, %of #" will expand to "Region of States".
Aa button
Invokes the Font Picker dialog box. This dialog box allows you to set the font used for the frame's subtitle.
Legend Frame Sample Sizes
The options in this pane are applied when creating a map legend using the Create Legend wizard. The resulting legend displays in the Legend Designer window.
Paper Units
Specifies the units when you measure the size of objects in a Legend Designer window. Choose a unit of measurement from the drop-down list. The default unit is points (pt), because it more accurately matches sample sizes to font sizes for legend text.
- 1 inch (in) = 2.54 centimeters , 254 millimeters, 6 picas, 72 points
- 1 point (pt) = 0.01389 inches, 0.03528 centimeters, 0.35278 millimeters, 0.08333 picas
- 1pica = 0.16667 inches, 0.42333 centimeters, 4.23333 millimeters, 12 points
- 1 centimeter (cm) = 0.39370 inches, 10 millimeters, 2.36220 picas, 28.34646 points
- 1 millimeter (mm) = 0.1 centimeters, 0.03937 inches, 0.23622 picas, 2.83465 points
Region Sample
Width
Enter a value for the width of a swatch in the map frame of the Legend Designer window. You can specify 8 to 144 points, 0.666667 to 12 picas, 0.111111 to 2 inches, 0.282222 to 5.08 millimeters, or 0.282222 to 5.08 centimeters. If not specified, then the default value of 32 points is used.
Height
Enter a value for the height of a swatch in the map frame of the Legend Designer window. You can specify 8 to 144 points, 0.666667 to 12 picas, 0.111111 to 2 inches, 0.282222 to 5.08 millimeters, or 0.282222 to 5.08 centimeters. If not specified, then the default value of 14 points is used.
Line Sample
Width
Enter a value for the width of a line segment in the map frame of a Legend Designer window. You can specify 12 to 144 points, 1 to 12 picas, 0.666667 to 2 inches, 4.23333 to 50.8 millimeters, or 4.23333 to 50.8 centimeters. If not specified, then the default value of 36 points is used.
Automatically Increase Sample Size to Match Font
Select to enable resizing the legend swatches (samples) based on the font size setting.
Grid and Guidelines
The Legend Designer window provides controls, in the form of a grid and guidelines, to accurately set the alignment of the contents of the legend.
Display Grid by Default
Select to show an equally spaced grid of lightly marked lines to align legend frames to.
Snap to Grid Enabled by Default
Select enable snapping to the grid of lightly marked lines within the Legend Designer canvas.
Grid Color
Select a color to display the grid of lightly marked lines within the Legend Designer canvas (the grid is for aligning legend frames). The default color is Light Slate Gray (RGB = 119, 136, 153).
Guideline Color
Select a color to display the guidelines within the Legend Designer canvas (guidelines are for aligning legend frames to a position of your choosing). The default color is Blue (RGB = 0, 0, 255).
Prompt Save Workspace Prior to Close
Select to always save legends to a workspace, along with the rest of your work, when closing MapInfo Pro.
Navigation Buttons
Cancel button
Closes the dialog box without creating a legend.