[Qgis-user] Label Rotation

[Jonathan Moules]

This seems to be a common problem with GIS labelling engines. They always
assume you want the text the right way up even if its supposed to rotated
the "wrong" way up. MapInfo does this, as does ArcGIS - The Maplex engine
for ArcGIS does have an option allowing you over-ride this (disanled by
default), but as best I can tell, short of using Maplex, none of these
three packages allows you to override this "feature" .

Jonathan



On 5 October 2012 21:58, Piotr Pachół <piotrpachol at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I am facing with the same problem.
> All labels with angle from 90 to 269 degrees are drawn in improper way.
>
> Additionaly there are other problems during labelling:
> 1. it is necessary to to indicate coordinates x and y when you want to
> rotate label. It shouldn't be necessary for point objects - then insert
> point of label is as default insert point of object.
> 2. When using rotating labels icon  - location of mouse indicator is not
> always situated on line of rotation arrow. It is therefore difficult to
> insert a label which should be for instance parallel to another object.
>
> Regards,
> Piotr
>
> W dniu 2012-10-04 17:54, Bernhard Ströbl pisze:
>
> Dear list,
>>
>> I am trying to get lables facing upside down with no avail. QGIS always
>> turns them around. So the label is drawn identically when entering 0 or 180
>> degrees.
>> Is there any setting that forces QGIS to act like that? If this is the
>> default behaviour I would conider it a bug and report it.
>> I am using QGIS master with the new labelling engine.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Bernhard
>>
>
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