topic Re: Legend colum width too large when patch is placed between label and description in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Legend colum width too large when patch is placed between label and description

FranziskaSumpf — Mon, 12 May 2025 12:39:42 GMT

When I create a layout with a legend, some settings cause the column width to be way to large and I get a lot of white space between columns.

This is not a matter of word wrapping like in this post! The guides in the screenshot are 90mm apart, so you can see it wraps correctly but still adds space between columns.

The problem seems to be linked to the descriptions, because if I disable them columns width is as it should be.

What I have tried so far: pretty much everything. I went through most legend settings and legend item settings, including text settings, to see if anything makes a difference. I also changed the descriptions (e. g. to plain text without a line break, so I can rule that out as the source of the problem).

I created a new layout from scratch with a new legend (Legend 1 from the standard style). As soon as I change the order to Label | Patch | Description the problem occurs. I didn't touch any other setting.

I'm currently using AGP 3.4.2, but had the same problem already with 3.1.? (never had 3.2 or 3.3 installed).

Re: Legend colum width too large when patch is placed between label and description

TomBole — Fri, 16 May 2025 16:02:03 GMT

Hi @FranziskaSumpf,

I believe the issue you describe above has been resolved with the fix to BUG-000175102.

Here are my test results using a legend with similar settings as yours.

When I view the legend using ArcGIS Pro 3.5 I see the "extra" white space between columns.

Here is the result when I view the legend using an internal 3.6 build of Pro that includes the fix for BUG-000175102.

I think this is the expected result. Barring any unforeseen problems, this fix should be available with ArcGIS Pro 3.6 which should be available sometime near the end of the year.

Hope this helps,

Tom

Re: Legend colum width too large when patch is placed between label and description

FranziskaSumpf — Mon, 19 May 2025 08:41:25 GMT

Hi @TomBole ,

this looks promising. I'll trust your screenshots and accept this as a solution, even though the bug description specifies a somewhat different problem. Thanks for looking into it and testing.

Guess I'll just have to wait for 3.6 then 😒. But, hey, at least there is a fix. 🙂