[Qgis-user] Legend block behaviour in composer

[Nyall Dawson]

On 27 January 2017 at 09:25, Laurence Béchet <bechet.laurence at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have several blocks of legend in my composer that I group together to have
> a final nice display:
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/92195218/legend.jpg
>
> To do so I have to stretch each block so that the final version looks like
> one single block and not several blocks put together:
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/92195218/legendORG.jpg
>
> A very annoying thing is that each time I refresh the composer, my legends
> get refreshed to their original rectangle and I have to reshape everything
> ... I thought that if I locked the blocks they would not get refreshed - but
> they do. I also tried to group them, but again they get refreshed. Is there
> a way to keep the final shape?

Uncheck "resize to fit contents" under the legend item properties,
"main properties" section.

> Also it took me a while to discover that to pick up several blocks one by
> one you need to use the shift key and not the control key (as in most
> software). Is it normal or is it something I can configure somewhere?

Shift is the standard used in layout/illustration packages. Ctrl
clicking cycles through selecting overlapping elements.

Nyall