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Automatic legend	Positional Legend

Note that the direction of the legend, by default, is computed automatically depending on the dimensions of its positional box (here, it was originally horizontal, then it became vertical). It can also be manually set.

Annotation View   

The Annotation View icon provides a container for user-defined text boxes. This View can also be used for layout purposes - if no user text is defined then an empty box will be created in the Display Window / paper sheet.

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Create an A3 plot, projection Mollweide

• Hint: this the page size is a setting in the Display Window icon

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The exercise given in the Legend section above has a hidden feature related to the value 27.4 assigned to parameter Legend X Box Position , Icon  in the icon legmap. This value was carefully chosen to allow the legend box to cover completely the latitude labels on the right hand side of the map. Change this value to 27, for instance, and check the result. One possible solution to avoid this issue is to reduce the width of the mapping area; thus, giving more space to draw the legend box.

Redo the Legend section's exercise by reducing the width of the mapping area. The mapping area is known as the subpage.

• Hints: 1) this is a setting in the Geographical View icon; 2) create an new instance of this View, instead of using the automatic default oneand change the subpage size.

Re-create the following plot:

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Choose one of the given GRIB datafiles.

Build the equivalent Macro program.

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