Pitney Bowes MapInfo Professional - Manual (Page 343)

associated with these that you wish to show. It generalizes this information to make it easier to understand
the information being shown.
After designing your map presentation, you will want to design a legend to help your readers understand
what they are looking at. The following example shows a map with two legends: one for map symbols
and one for the ranged theme.
This map layout includes a legend for the map symbols of points and stars, and a legend for the ranged
theme of color-coded style swatches.
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You can create a legend for an individual layer, giving it particular emphasis, or you can place legends
for several layers in one Legend Designer window (see
About the Legend Designer Window ). You
can add map legends to a map layout when you are preparing the presentation of your map for print or
electronic distribution.
For instructions, see Creating a Legend in the Help System.
Creating a Map Legend
Creating a map legend is easy. When you select the Create Legend option from the Map menu it launches
the Create Legend wizard, which steps you through the process. The wizard has three screens; the
second and third screens provide customization options, and are optional. You can select to customize
a legend when you are creating it, in the second and third screens of the Create Legend wizard, or
afterwards from the Legend Designer window.
There is no size limitation on a map legend. However, there is a size limitation of 1600 rows for a legend
frame, which ensures that it does not slow resizing the Legend Designer window. A message displays
to warn you when a legend frame list is truncated to 1600 rows.
To create a map legend:
1. Make sure your Map window is active and click Map > Create Legend.
2. in the Create Legend Choose Layers screen, select the map layers to include in the legend.
All the layers in your Map window are included in the Legend Frames box by default, so that they
will be in your legend. Use the Remove button to exclude layers from the legend.
The legend will have one frame for each layer in the Legend Frames box. The frames display in the
order that they appear in the list. Use the Up and Down buttons to change the order.
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Chapter 12: Stylizing Your Map for Presentations and Publishing