Legend Properties

This dialog controls settings for the currently selected legend object. To access this dialog, select a legend and then select Properties > Legend Properties.

General

This dialog pane controls general options for the formatting of a legend.

Layout items

This option allows you to control the order by which series names are listed in the legend. For example, when this value is set to Left to Right, the second series name will be listed to the right of the first. When this value is set to Top to Bottom, the second series name will be listed below the first series name. If there is only one row or series of items in the legend, this setting has no effect.

Grow Vertically if Needed

If the legend cannot display all of the legend items within its bounds, this setting allows PopChart to expand the legend to the height specified on the right. If the legend does not need to be expanded all the way to this height to fit the legend items, it will not be expanded. The expansion will take place before PopChart Server attempts to apply the Minimum Font Size and Truncate Down to X Characters settings.

Grow Horizontally if Needed

If the legend cannot display all of the legend items within its bounds, this setting allows PopChart to expand the legend to the width specified on the right. If the legend does not need to be expanded all the way to this width to fit the legend items, it will not be expanded. The expansion will take place before PopChart Server attempts to apply the Minimum Font Size and Truncate Down to X Characters settings.

Preferences

These options control how the legend is formatted.

Set number of columns to

This manually sets the number of columns that should be in the legend. This number will only be overridden when there is not enough space (after resizing and other adjustments) to display the legend.

Minimum Font Size

This is the smallest size that the legend font can be shrunk to. If there is not enough room in the legend for all of the legend items, PopChart will shrink the legend font size to no smaller than this size in order to fit all of the items.

Truncate Down to X Characters

If, after shrinking the font size, there is still not enough room for all of the legend items, the series names will be truncated to the number of characters specified in this setting. This number includes a period. For example, if this value is 5, January would become Janu..

Legend Marker Size

Controls the size of the legend marker. The legend marker is the small color box that appears to the left of the series name.

Scale to Font

The size of the legend marker will be the same as the size of the font (i.e. the height of the legend marker is the height of the font).

Set to

This allows you to manually set the width and height, in pixels, of the legend marker.

Font

Specifies font characteristics for the legend object. You can also change the background color for the legend in the Font pane. For more information, refer to "Font Properties".

Borders & Shadow

This pane allows you to control border and shadow settings for the currently selected legend.

Border Type

Sets the legend border type. Available options include:

None

Thin

Regular

Thick

Double Thin

Double - Thick Inside, Thin Outside

Double - Thin Inside, Thick Outside

Border Color

Sets the legend border color. For more information about this dialog, refer to "Color Properties" in Chapter A.

Shadow Type

Sets the legend shadow type. You can choose either None, or from six shadow depths.

Shadow Color

Sets the legend shadow color. For more information about this dialog, refer to "Color Properties" in Chapter A.

Advanced

This controls advanced properties for the legend object. For more information, refer to "Advanced Object Properties".