[rrd-users] Legend alignment

[Tobias Oetiker]

In rrdtool 1.3 there is a special TEXTALIGN tag that lets you
modifuy the default text alignement behaviour

cheers
tobi

Yesterday Alex van den Bogaerdt wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 04:45:14PM -0500, Cole Tuininga wrote:
>
> > I'm running rrdtool 1.2.23 on a freebsd system and am having a little
> > trouble with the alignment of the legend.  Typically, the graphs I'm
> > generating end up having a legend with three items per row, and I want
> > each of these columns to be lined up.  The problem seems to occur only
> > on the second and third column of the last line in each graph.
>
> Confirmed using 1.2.12 and 1.2.25
>
> What's happening: rrdtool evenly divides remainging space, except on the
> last row.
>
>
> Maybe someone else has a smarter solution, but I just tried this one
> and it seems to work:
>
> If you always have up to three items on a row, suffix every third
> label with '\l'. This will start a new row.
>
> Thus:
> AREA:GRAPH4#764913:Record Type\:CNAME.\l:STACK \
> ...
> AREA:GRAPH9#5e676c:Record Type\:MX   .\l:STACK \
>
> and so on.
>
> Adjust "every third" when you alter the graph width or the amount
> of characters per label.
>
> HTH
>

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