<span class="gmail_quote"><b class="gmail_sendername">Marco Hugentobler</b> <<a href="mailto:marco.hugentobler@karto.baug.ethz.ch" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
marco.hugentobler@karto.baug.ethz.ch</a>> wrote:</span><br>>>How is your experience with QGIS development so far?<br>Pretty good! I'm still learning C++ and Qt, but I think I've been able to figure things out and make some useful progress.
<br><br>>>So if you have enough time for development, the print composer is surely a good area to work at.<br>July is fairly open for me, and I hope to get most of the printing bugs fixed by then. After that, I'll be off to college, so I don't really know how much time I'll have.
<br><br>Now for a quick update...<br>I've gotten most of the print composer working with GraphicsView now. Printing and image export are not working yet, but I'm hoping it won't be too difficult with some of the new printing stuff in Qt 4.
<br>As it turned out, porting to GraphicsView did not make the <a href="http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/2640/fontmessiz6.png" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">text problems</a> go away. :-( However, I think GraphicsView does make some things simpler, and is worth doing.
<br><br>If some other Linux users could run my font test program below, that would be helpful. Let me know your Linux distro, Qt version, and whether the text came out garbled.<br>A Linux binary is here: <a href="http://botsnlinux.googlepages.com/QT_Fonts" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://botsnlinux.googlepages.com/QT_Fonts</a> , and source code is here: <a href="http://botsnlinux.googlepages.com/QT_Fonts.zip" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://botsnlinux.googlepages.com/QT_Fonts.zip
</a><br><br><br>After I get the port completed, I hope to move onto some other improvements. Should I just work on some the the
<a href="http://svn.qgis.org/trac/query?status=new&status=reopened&component=Printing&order=priority" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">bugs and enhancements listed in trac
</a> or is there another list somewhere? Should there be an e-mail and/or forum<span style="font-style: italic;"></span> post asking for ideas and most wanted improvements?<br><br>Steven<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 6/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Marco Hugentobler</b> <<a href="mailto:marco.hugentobler@karto.baug.ethz.ch" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
marco.hugentobler@karto.baug.ethz.ch</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi Steven,<br><br>How is your experience with QGIS development so far?<br></blockquote><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I would appreciate it very much to have a redesigned print composer. There are
<br>not many qgis developers and the original developer of the print composer<br>(Radim) has left the project. So if you have enough time for development,<br>the print composer is surely a good area to work at.<br><br>Regards,
<br>Marco<br><br>On Friday 22 June 2007 02:52:38 you wrote:<br>> After some more research, I'm guessing that at least some of the print<br>> composer bugs are related to the switch from Qt3 to Qt4. Fonts are<br>
> rendered correctly with version .7.4 on Ubuntu, and with .8 on Windows.<br>> With .8 on Ubuntu, I get things like this:<br>> <a href="http://img466.imageshack.us/img466/4026/legendtextjy1.png" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://img466.imageshack.us/img466/4026/legendtextjy1.png
</a><br>><br>> I propose to modify the print composer to work with the new Graphics View<br>> framework, which will hopefully eliminate these issues. Are there<br>> significant issues with switching to Graphics View which would make it
<br>> difficult? Are there other things related to the print composer and<br>> drawing I should know about?<br>> Thanks!<br>> Steven<br><br><br><br>--<br>Dr. Marco Hugentobler<br>Institute of Cartography<br>
ETH Zurich
<br>Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee<br><a href="mailto:marco.hugentobler@karto.baug.ethz.ch" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">marco.hugentobler@karto.baug.ethz.ch</a>
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