<div><div>I agree that the print composer is currently pretty cumbersome. Count me in for a "summer of code" to work on it! I'll be relatively free for the next six weeks, so with some guidance I should be able to make a few useful improvements.
<br>Steven<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">From: Paolo Cavallini <<a href="mailto:cavallini@faunalia.it">cavallini@faunalia.it
</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] printing issues<br>To: Maciej Sieczka <<a href="mailto:tutey@o2.pl">tutey@o2.pl</a>><br>Cc: QGIS-dev <<a href="mailto:qgis-developer@lists.qgis.org">qgis-developer@lists.qgis.org
</a>><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:466E739D.803@faunalia.it">466E739D.803@faunalia.it</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2"<br><br>Glad I'm not the only one.<br>How about using the resources we have for this? Could we have a sort of
<br>"qgis summer of code" aiming at a better map composer?<br>Alternatively, why not using it for bug bounties?<br>pc<br><br>Maciej Sieczka ha scritto:<br>> I second this. As of now, most printing functionality in QGIS
0.8.1<br>> (current SVN) is cumbersome, so that producing a decent map takes much<br>> time and knowledge about how to workaround the present bugs.<br>><br>> QGIS print composer has great potential, and I'm recommending it to
<br>> people who who want to print their GRASS data, also because there is no<br>> alternative GUI map composer for GRASS data currently. However, I must<br>> say that users I know complain about the QGIS map composer usability.
<br>><br>> On [1] there are 348 votes for "Improved map printing/layout" - the<br>> most wanted functionality, 16% overall. Is this realistic that the<br>> known QGIS map composer bugs will be fixed in QGIS
0.9? How about 0.8.2?<br>><br>> [1]http://qgis.org/component/option,com_poll/task,results/id,15/<br>><br>> Maciek<br>--<br>Paolo Cavallini<br><a href="http://www.faunalia.it/pc">http://www.faunalia.it/pc</a><br>
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