[Qgis-user] fill patterns in map printing

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi Markus

At the moment, there is no layer transprency setting in the new symbology. I'm 
planing to add that soon.

Regards,
Marco

Am Donnerstag, 21. Januar 2010 05.39:03 schrieb 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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