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Legends are used to provide descriptions for the lithologic symbols, well components, sample symbols, and other symbols shown in boring/well logs. These legends are divided into lithologic legends and symbol legends. Lithologic legends are used to display lithologic libraries and can also include well and sample symbols. Symbol legends are used to display legends for various types of symbol column, such as: fossils, drilling data, constituents, structures, well symbols, sample types, and oil and gas shows.

 

GaeaSynergy comes with several previously defined legends. In addition, any number of new legends can be easily created. Legends can be customized to display different symbol descriptions, titles, and layout. In addition, they can include bitmaps, and paragraph text. A company logo can also be included in a legend.

 

Although you can use an unlimited number of lithologic libraries (each with 18 symbols) in a lithologic legend, only one library can be represented on the legend. If you need to show more libraries, it is recommended to create additional legends. If more symbols are specified then can be fit on the page, they will be truncated at the bottom of the page.

 

Each lithologic symbol has a default symbol description stored in the lithologic library, which is used when creating legends. When a lithologic legend is created the default description will be used for the symbol description in the legend. If this description is then edited in the legend, the new description will only appear in that legend. The new description in the legend will not replace the default description in the library. To change the default description in the library, the description must be changed in the library as discussed in the Symbol Libraries section. However, the actual symbols are the same in the legend as in the library and if edited in the legend the symbols in the library will change as well.

 

This chapter describes how to:

•Create a new legend

•Edit a legend

•Save a legend

•Print a legend

•Delete a legend