[Qgis-user] Some extra North Arrows :-)

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

These additional north arrows are in svn trunk now (with Nikos'
permission) and I have added you to the CONTRIBUTORS file too).

Many thanks.

Regards

Tim

On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 03:24 +0100, Nikos Alexandris wrote:

> Dear QGIS community,
> 
> I've scratched some "north arrows" (using inkscape, based on one of
> defaults) that can be used as a point symbol. They are simple .svg files
> (including one file called northarrow_source.svg which can be used for
> further editing).
> 
> Hope you also like the "rotation field" and "area scale field" options
> under Layer Properties, Point Symbol as I do. For example they can be
> used with an "aspect" and an "area" column of a point-vector's attribute
> table. Hopefully you enjoy those options as I do.
> 
> Cheers, Nikos
> ---
> 
> 1. Decompress the zip file
> 
> 2. Rename if necessary (that is if it happens that you already have
> added extra north arrows and you don't want to overwrite anything - if
> you just have the defaults skip this and worry about it in the future
> when your northarrow collection becomes bigger ;-).
> 
> 3. Copy/Move the files (except of the northarrow_source.svg) to the
> directory "/usr/local/share/qgis/svg/north_arrows/". This steps needs
> sudo (...sorry, I don't know what should be the corresponding folder in
> windows).
> 
> 4. Launch qgis and test/enjoy :-)
> 
> 
> Screenshots at:
> http://www.imageshack.gr/view.php?file=n70dtdthvljo3yms0mmy.jpeg
> http://www.imageshack.gr/view.php?file=ep4icmtn5egof2swjz6w.jpeg
> http://www.imageshack.gr/view.php?file=4rmcgkfk96n2lwqtknhd.jpeg
> http://www.imageshack.gr/view.php?file=jb7na2w1ucrmjrwxf0hx.jpeg
> http://www.imageshack.gr/view.php?file=in0fj7gwwts7khqf2gth.jpeg
> http://www.imageshack.gr/view.php?file=3l2l2ysed33d9nj15cmf.jpeg
> 
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