Crystal Reports- Pie Graph Legend Font won't color black

[demosoc]

Hello All,

I have a report with a pie graph where you can see the legend. There are quite a few slices in the pie, so when I printed with the automatic colors assigned by Crystal, you couldn't discern the color differentiation. So I slightly changed the colors and added patterns to make it easy on the eye. Now the pie graph looks great, but the darned font in the legend has changed colors and is difficult to read.

I right click on the line in the legend, choose selected item and verify the text to be black, but it remains a different, light and hard to read color. I tried choosing other gradients of black to no avail. I can switch to, say brown, and it will work on one or two, but all other lines, even individually manipulated, remain light and difficult to read. In fact, when I go back to check the font color, it shows the default black as the color in edit, but the display remains, ever annoyingly, a light, hard to read color.

In order to read the text, I have to put a solid black fill which looks terrible. Sigh.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

 

[demosoc]

oops, forgot to put that I'm using crystal Reports 9.2.0.448

-thanks

 

[CR85user]

Is the light, hard to read colour shared by a particular slice?

Could it be that that particular slice colour is dictating the text colour and over riding the settings?

(This may be a bug in the release version - I have never used v9 so can't confirm)

It is certainly worth checking as that could result in a quick and easy fix.

Charting is one area that is often changed during upgrades of crystal versions and subsequently patched.

'J

CR8.5 / CRXI - Discovering the impossible

 

[demosoc]

Well, it sort of is related.
So, say a light green and dark green pattern initially makes the corresponding line, and oddly another line or two, light green. So then I go and change the light color, and it's all a mess from there. Sometimes corresponding and sometimes not, and always taking down a couple other lines with it. Very buggy-
thought I'd try...