Layout Property

Click ‘Layout Property’ sub-menu item under ‘Map’ menu item to open the properties dialog. The property of back color, fore color and smoothing mode could be changed.

The tool strip of layout is enabled when the layout view is active. The layout page can be zoomed by the zoom buttons. The page size of the layout could be set by ‘Page Set’ button.

After select the ‘Select Elements’ tool button, the elements in the layout view could be selected and be moved or resized. Double click the map element to open map property dialog and edit the properties.

Double click the title text to open text property dialog and edit the properties.

Double click the legend to open legend property dialog and edit the properties. The legend scheme of the first meteorological layer will be plotted when the ‘FirstMeteoLayer’ is ‘True’. On the other hand, the legend scheme of the first expanded layer in layer management section will be plotted. ‘SingleSymbol’ legend scheme will not be plotted. There are three kinds of legend types: ‘Bar_Vertical’, ‘Bar_Horizontal’ and ‘Normal’. The point, polyline or polygon symbol of each legend break is plotted with ‘Normal’ legend type. Following is an example of changing legend type form ‘Bar_Vertical’ to ‘Normal’.