[Qgis-user] some questions on Atlas plugin

[G. Allegri]

>
> 1)
> the A0 PDF output cannot be read by Acrobat. Foxit Reader can open some of
> them, but suffer a lot. Is it something related to old issues with A0
> printing, like http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4821?
>

I also noted a small error (I suppose) at line 399 of atlasdialog.py.
Here is a proposed patch:
http://giovanniallegri.it/share/<http://giovanniallegri.it/share/A0_0.pdf>
atlas_patch.diff

Trying to force the export as raster (setting
composition().setPrintAsRaster(True)) crashed Qgis.


>
> 2)
> The tile in this picture [1] perfectly fits an A0 at 1:100000 scale. The
> original layout was in ArcGIS. I'm trying to reproduce it in QGis composer
> and Atlas plugin gives already a good help in it. Looking into the code I
> see that it adjusts the extents of the composer Map item to the bbox of the
> coverage polygon. This means that the result map in the composer can be
> narrower or wider then the coverage exact extent, depending on the
> dimension of the Map item, ok? See the result in [2].
> What I would need is to scale the Map item to fit the bbox AND a fixed
> scale. It could be scale from the center where it is positioned, changing
> height and width.
> What do you suggest to achieve this? Do you see a "manual" way of doing
> that, or coding it into to the plugin is unavoidable?
>
> giovanni
>
> [1] http://giovanniallegri.it/share/A0_tile.png
> [2] http://giovanniallegri.it/share/A0_0.pdf
>
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