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Putting a description into a chart [message #659796]

Tue, 15 March 2011 12:04

Eclipse User

Let me try to describe this without a picture... I have a chart that has 7 series. As such the legend takes up a significant amount of vertical space (it is placed top/right). I place the legend there because I also need the full width to make best use of the X axis of the chart.
This leaves a big chunk of unused space on top of the chart area to the left of the legend. I would really like to use this space to put descriptive text. Is there any way to do this? It just seems like a big waste of space and looks odd when the text is placed above or below the chart when all this space is available.

I did try to make the legend horizontal and place it at the bottom of the chart. The problem was that it truncates the legend item descriptions. I tried fiddling with the wrap option(s) but it didn't do any good. I would use this if I could get it working but it would still be my 2nd choice as I would much rather reclaim the other space.

Re: Putting a description into a chart [message #660001 is a reply to message #659796]

Wed, 16 March 2011 10:07

Eclipse User

Mike,

I assume you also played with the max percent and setting the font
smaller in the legend? In script you can move say a title out of place
to pretty much anywhere in the chart, but that may induce clipping errors.

Jason

On 3/15/2011 12:04 PM, Mike Wulkan wrote:
> Let me try to describe this without a picture... I have a chart that
> has 7 series. As such the legend takes up a significant amount of
> vertical space (it is placed top/right). I place the legend there
> because I also need the full width to make best use of the X axis of the
> chart.
> This leaves a big chunk of unused space on top of the chart area to the
> left of the legend. I would really like to use this space to put
> descriptive text. Is there any way to do this? It just seems like a big
> waste of space and looks odd when the text is placed above or below the
> chart when all this space is available.
>
> I did try to make the legend horizontal and place it at the bottom of
> the chart. The problem was that it truncates the legend item
> descriptions. I tried fiddling with the wrap option(s) but it didn't do
> any good. I would use this if I could get it working but it would still
> be my 2nd choice as I would much rather reclaim the other space.

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