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Dialog box “Adding/Properties of symbol”

Purpose

The dialog box serves for selecting symbol (vectorial or raster) and setting its displaying parameters in the layout.

Panes

Height

Serves for specifying symbol height (in centimeters)

Angle

Serves for specifying slope angle of layout element – vectorial map symbol. The angle is specified in degrees with respect to the horizontal axis.

For raster map symbols this parameters is not used.

Default

When setting this radio button for displaying layout element system default is used – map symbol in the form of a cross: .

From GDB library

Permits selecting any map symbol from shared GDB library to display the present element of the layout.

From shared library

Allows choosing any map symbol from shared library to display the present element of the layout.

List of styles

Serves for selecting the map symbol from the corresponding library.

Font sample

Demonstrates a sample of the map symbol selected in the list.

Buttons

OK

Confirms changes of map symbol – element of the layout and closes the dialog box.

Cancel

Cancels made changes and closes the dialog box.

See also

Map symbols

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