[Qgis-user] fill patterns in map printing

[Markus Nater]

I was playing around now quite some time with the svgfill feature. it's 
a great feature! Nevertheless I experience obstacles, making parts of 
the svg-grafic transparent. The only way I managed to come close to 
transparency is by drawing an object in inkscape and setting its filling 
to an opacity-value (alpha-value) of ca. 100. Then, imported to qgis, 
underlaying layer shine trough.... but unfortunately it's only 
semi-transparent.

cheers
markus



Marco Hugentobler schrieb:
> 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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