To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=82802 Issue #|82802 Summary|Chart legend line samples too small to be useful Component|Spreadsheet Version|OOo 2.3 Platform|Sun URL| OS/Version|Solaris Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|ENHANCEMENT Priority|P3 Subcomponent|viewing Assigned to|spreadsheet Reported by|peterkessler
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 19 18:19:39 +0000 2007 ------- I'm working with someone who is color blind. I'm trying to make line charts where the lines are distinguishable by line style. But I find that the legends give sample lines that are too small to be able to distinguish which line is which. This is probably also a problem for people making charts for publication in print journals. I have a workaround, suggested by Frank Psotka: make the chart really big. That makes the legend really big, and allows the sample lines to be big enough to show their details. I've attached an example spreadsheet with charts. Reproduce by making a line chart with several sets of data. Make all the lines black, choose different line styles for the different lines. E.g., "Fine Dashed" versus "Continuous" and "2 dots 1 dash" versus "Fine dotted". You will find it difficult to distinguish the lines in the legend. In the attached example, I've shown the chart first with colored lines so you can see they are different (if you have a color display and aren't color challenged). Then I've used the workaround to make the chart 3x larger, and edited the chart to make everything 3x larger (the fonts, the line thicknesses, etc.) That makes the legend large enough to distinguish the line styles. Then I copy-n-pasted the chart to a Drawing, saved it as a JPG, and shrank that by a factor of 3, producing a chart (well, an image of a chart) with distinguishable lines. This is the chart I'd like to have in the first place. Below that I have the original chart with black lines, and finally I have an JPG of the black and white chart after I've blown the chart up, exported it as a JPG and then shrunk the JPG back down. I think you can still tell the lines styles apart. I shouldn't propose a solution, since you folks are the experts, but I when I was fooling around with this, I thought I would want to be able to stretch the legend horizontally, have the fonts stay as they were, but have the example line segments get longer. I hoped that way to be able to show them distinctly. But I can't change the size of the legend box. I don't know if that's the right UI solution, but it seemed to me like one way to do this. I'm actually using StarOffice 8pp5, rather than OOo2.3 directly. Hmm, now I have to figure out how to attach a file to an issue: there doesn't seem to be a place to type in a file name to be uploaded. I hope I can submit this issue and then attach the sample file. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
