[Qgis-user] fill patterns in map printing

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi Markus

> 2. The new symbology is not yet supported in print composers legend....
> I guess, thats may be coming in a later version?

Yes. For now, you could add a composer picture and move it over the legend as 
a workaround.

Regards,
Marco

Am Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2010 13.15:42 schrieb Markus Nater:
> Hi Marco, Hi Andreas
> 
> Thanks a lot for your assistance, so nice!
> I am experimenting at the moment with the vector fill patterns. (that's
> exactly what I am looking for).
> There are two problems though I don't know yet how to overcome:
> 
> 1. When I create a line in a 16*16 icon in inkscape and want to use with
> SVGFill the background is just white - it would be great to make it
> transparent, so one could see between the lines what layer is underneath.
> 
> 2. The new symbology is not yet supported in print composers legend....
> I guess, thats may be coming in a later version?
> 
> Cheers
> Markus
> 
> Andreas Neumann schrieb:
> > Hi Markus,
> >
> > I don't know exactly what pattern you want to apply. Those are
> > fill-patterns not stroke-dashings or stroke-patterns?
> >
> > Do you have access to the latest svn-version.
> >
> > As Marco said, he just implemented vector fill patterns (with the new
> > symbology-engine) - but it was just recently checked in - so it's not
> > part of the QGIS 1.4 release. Because it is new, it also not documented
> > yet - but we can assist you if you need help.
> >
> > You need to compile yourself or install the QGIS-dev version from
> > OSGeo4Win.
> >
> > As Marco said - you cannot print to PDF yet without a workaround. You
> > would need to print to .ps and then convert the .ps to pdf if you use the
> > new vector fills.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Andreas
> >
> > On Wed, January 20, 2010 10:30 am, Markus Nater wrote:
> >> nobody any advice how to print out a map with line fill patterns that
> >> are not too thin? (to visualize two layers that are above each other)
> >> I am desperate, should hand in some maps and can't get over this
> >> obstacle... so I probably will have to rebuild all my projects in
> >> arcview just in order to print out a decent map...!
> >>
> >> cheers
> >> mark
> >>
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