[Qgis-developer] Shields for Labels

[Alex Mandel]

It does need to account for differing sizes of text 1-4 characters ( at
least I've seen that variety). What about a hybrid system where for a
given symbology set, a static image is generated from SVG+text and then
used for all renderings of it at a given scale and cached for future
use? The ability to create new highway type symbols is fairly important
as that varies widely throughout the world. I could also see symbol
constrained labels in general being an awesome feature.

Look forward to testing, especially pdf/svg export - the label should be
editable (text) but not necessarily the symbol.

Thanks,
Alex

On 08/07/2011 03:09 PM, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
> I think that is a good idea and the implementation is in the correct place.
> I would like to see it in trunk, as I have a project that already need
> something like this.
> Yeah I wouldn't use SVG for label stuff, labels need to be as fast as
> possible and I think it defiantly would have killed performance.
> 
> - Nathan
> 
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Folks
>>
>> Is anyone else interested in being able to have shields for labels
>> (e.g. to mark highways etc.). I've made an initial stab at it - you
>> can see an example and git details in case you want to try it in the
>> link below. Is there any interest in getting this into trunk? Maybe a
>> better way of doing things? I thought of using SVG shields but I think
>> it might be a performance killer if you have many labels and each
>> needs scaling.
>>
>> http://linfiniti.com/2011/08/shield-labels-for-qgis/
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
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