SciFigs: Legend

A legend

A legend is a graphical object that can be inserted in a graphic sheet. A legend is a description of various line, symbol and text attributes used for plotting curves on a XY plot containing line layers.

Creating a new legend

In a graphic sheet such as figue, select menu Insert/Legend. Alternatively, use the toolbar icon for legend or right-click on a blank part of the graphic sheet and access all menu items through the context menu (useful for Mac users who have no top menu bar when the graphic sheet is embedded in a larger application, e.g. inside geopsy). Open this page file in figue to plot the same legend as in figure.

Editing and Exporting/Importing a legend

Editing the properties of a legend

By double clicking on the graph of the legend you get the properties window of the legend box. You can than specify the properties of Pen, Symbol, Symbol pen, Symbol brush, and the Text to describe different lines.

The user has the ability to Import Load or Export Save the Legend information from or into a file.

Pen

Select Color

You can select the Pen Color (shown on the left side figure), the Width and the Style , as Continous, Dashed or Dotted line. Especially for the Color Selection the user can select one of the Basic colors already defined or create his own color and add it to the Custom Colors by either pressing the appropriate button or drag & drop it to the list of Custom Colors.

Symbol

The user can define here the Type of Symbol that could be an x, a rectangular, a circle, a triangle, a diamond or a star. Additionally one can specify and the Size of the Symbol.

Symbol pen

The user can define here the parameters for the pen that creates the Symbol to be used, as the Color, the Width and the Style.

Symbol brush

The user can define the Color and the Style to be used.

Text

The user can define the Text to be used at the legend box describing each curve. It is also possible to define the color of the text.