[Qgis-user] Printed map scale question

[Sarah Gregg]

I've run some tests and you're quite right, playing with the paper size and
scale gives me exactly the right result. Many, many thanks to you all (as
ever), Sarah.

2016-05-09 11:10 GMT+02:00 Joris Hintjens <jorishin at gmail.com>:

> In the print composer, you should see the panel “layout”, if not: g too
> View>panels>layout. There you can change the paper size. (eg A0 instead of
> A4).
> gives you a larger working area.
> This
> hope this is what you needed.
>
> Joris
>
> Op 6 mei 2016, om 13:49 heeft Sarah Gregg <lynkosmail at gmail.com> het
> volgende geschreven:
>
> Here I am back again with what may well be a very simple question (though
> perhaps with a negative answer).
> I have digitalised a zoning map on a 1:25,000 base (for Italian readers,
> IGM 1:25,000). So far so good. Now I have to render the results in a
> clearly legible high resolution image for printing.
> To display the full map on the screen, I have to set the scale at
> 1:185.000 and obviously if I create an image file at this scale using the
> Composer, even if I set the resolution high, the base map is scarsely
> legible.
> Is there any way I can get an image of the whole map at, say, 1:75000...
> apart from creating a whole series of image files and then joining them
> together using image processing software?
> Many thanks for your advice, Sarah.
>
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