Help: Legend color ramp does not match layer color ramp

[VitalyGolubev]

Hi.

I can't fix the following issue in AcrGIS Pro (v.2.2.4 😞

I have a continuous color ramp for map's elevation, and when I create a Layout with a legend, the legend's color ramp doesn't match the elevation layer. Particularly, the minimum value occupies ~20% of the legend.

Please see attached below. This error is persistent in different project and with different colors.

Anyone came across this issue and found a solution?

Can you recreate it in your project?

Thanks

Vitaly

[TomBole]

The decimal issue looks like it occurs in the Contents pane as well as the legend. The legend pulls the label text from Contents. This is something that the Map Authoring team should evaluate.

Tom

[MitchMergen]

 @KoryKramer @AubriKinghorn @Robert_LeClair @RobertGarrity @ShaunWalbridge @TomBole @DanPatterson 

Six (6!!!!!!) years later and color ramp legend BUG-000115963 still isn't fixed in ArcGIS Pro 3.4.3... and Esri has even closed BUG-000115963 as "Will Not Be Addressed"(?!)

https://support.esri.com/en-us/bug/difference-in-display-of-symbology-between-the-color-ra-bug-00011...

If you're on the ArcGIS Pro product team and reading this, please don't close unresolved bug tickets without providing a reason. I'd appreciate it if BUG-000115963 could be reopened and re-examined, thanks!

[ShaunWalbridge]

I'm working with some folks internally to identify which bug this correctly maps to, but wanted to let you know that the bug you've identified (BUG-000115963) is not related to the report provided within this post. That bug is specific to random raster ramps, which is not the case in a hypsometric tint ramp like the one listed here. We will respond with more information once it is gathered.

For future reference, please refrain from at messaging a collection of people: choose the one or two people who are most appropriate (here, I would've picked Esri employees already involved in the issue), and wait for a response before trying to engage more individuals. This helps prevent duplicate efforts from our teams in triaging communications, and ultimately will make us more likely to address your concerns.

Cheers, Shaun

[VitalyGolubev · Accepted solution]

Because this is an ongoing issue with the color ramp in ArcGIS Pro without a proposed workaround by ESRI, I decided to leave below what worked for me in order to fix the colors.

1) Export the map with the color ramp bug to a PDF file;

2) Import the PDF to Inkscape (it's free software);

3) Ungroup the map, and find the legend among all the objects via object panel, and then find the color ramp within the legend object; Make all other objects invisible - just leave the color ramp;

4) Create a new rectangle over the color ramp of the size that you think the color ramp should be, and crop the color ramp (by selecting both the new rectangle and color ramp, and go to menu Object>Clip>Set);

5) The color ramp should change to the shape of the new rectangle. Then select the color ramp and go to File>document properties, and in section Custom size click "Resize page to drawing or selection";

6) Save as a copy> open Select as a type and choose Optimized SVG (there are some settings to play with);

7) Go back to ArcGIS Pro project, go to the layout, and insert the svg file as a picture;

😎 Move the picture to where the legend is and overlay it over the old color ramp, then stretch the image to occupy the same height as the original color ramp (to turn off the Ratio preservation, go to picture's Format)

9) Done!

Hopefully this might be helpful to those who have the same color issues while we're waiting for the official fix.

Vitaly

After all these steps, I got the following: