<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Sandro Santilli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:strk@keybit.net" target="_blank">strk@keybit.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 09:52:16PM +0200, Tim Sutton wrote:<br>
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> "This release includes preliminary support for rotation in the map canvas.<br>
> You need to explicitly enable this in Settings --> Options --> General --><br>
> Experimental canvase rotation support(it will be enabled by default). Note<br>
> that you need to restart QGIS before this feature is enabled. We also<br>
> recommend that you start a new project for cases where you wish to rotate<br>
> the map canvas. Rotation support has been extended into the map composer<br>
> too so that it correctly handles labelling and symbology, etc."<br>
> <br>
><br>
> I still think we should just remove the option from settings - how many<br>
> users to you think will actually go and disable it and on what basis will<br>
> they make the decisions to do so? If you dont want rotation simply leave it<br>
> on zero in the status bar? Anyway sorry I don't mean to make it sound like<br>
> I am on some kind of crusade :-P If you want different wording to the<br>
> above, just supply me what you prefer and I will update it ok?<br>
<br>
</span>Why not just trimming out the whole Settings explanation ?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I updated so it now reads like this:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><h3 id="feature-231" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:500;line-height:1.1;color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:24px"><a href="http://changelog.linfiniti.com/qgis/version/2.8/#231" style="color:rgb(42,100,150);outline:0px;background:0px 50%">#</a> <span class="" style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">Feature:</span> Map rotation in canvas, improved rotation in composer</h3><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px">This release includes preliminary support for rotation in the map canvas. You can rotate the canvas using the new rotation widget in the status bar. Rotation support has been extended into the map composer too so that it correctly handles labelling and symbology, etc.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="font-weight:700">This feature was funded by:</span> <a href="http://georepublic.co.jp/" style="color:rgb(66,139,202);text-decoration:none;background:0px 50%">Georepublic Japan</a><br></p></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;font-weight:700">This feature was developed by:</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px"> </span><a href="http://www.faunalia.eu/" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;color:rgb(66,139,202);text-decoration:none;background:0px 50%">Faunalia</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<span class=""><br>
This release includes preliminary support for rotation in the map canvas.<br>
</span><span class=""> Rotation support has been extended into the map composer too so that<br>
it correctly handles labelling and symbology, etc.<br>
<br>
</span>I've also removed the "start new project" as I don't understand why<br>
you would recommend that.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I based that on your recommendation on IRC when I mentioned my labels were not showing when rotating an existing project (created with an older version of QGIS).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regards</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Tim</div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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--strk;<br>
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