[Qgis-developer] Composer: Labels/rasters are not exported to SVG

[Stephan Holl]

Hello Gavin,

thanks for your reply.

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:36:45 +1200 Gavin Macaulay
<gavin at macaulay.co.nz> wrote:

> Stephan,
> 
> Those problems with the svg export from qgis are caused by bugs and 
> unimplemented features in the Qt4 code that qgis uses when exporting
> to svg. I recently tried to work-around some of them, particularly
> the lack of text labels, but had no success.
> 
> Currently, the users expectation of svg export is higher than we can 
> provide. I am planning on adding something to qgis to make people
> aware of this until qt4 does svg better.

This might be good. I will try to build todays qt4.2 snapshot from
trolltech and report back, if this solves anything with this.

Best regards

	Stephan


> Regards
> 
> Gavin
> 
> Stephan Holl wrote:
> > Dear developers,
> >
> > I am in the position to search for a tool which can 'pimp' the maps
> > generated by QGIS. I thought about inkscape which has nice
> > vector-drawing capabilities.
> >
> > When I export from Mapcomposer into SVG, the resulting map does not
> > look like I had them layouted in the Composer. 
> >
> > Some of my remarks:
> > * Labels are not exported
> > * filling-styles are ignored
> > * Rasters are somewhat exported, but not shown in inkscape
> > * no text-elements
> >
> > What would be really nice is that label- and general text-exort
> > should work. This would improve the usability of the SVG-output
> > greatly.
> >
> > Is there any chance to get (at least) some of the things done in
> > one of the next releases? I thought that the label-stuff worked in
> > 0.7.9 (qt3-based), but I may be wrong.
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > 	Stephan
> >
> >   



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