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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi Mike,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">1:200000 will fit a city, or a small county, but not all of WV. I think your map is much larger than the page you are fitting it to.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I recommend:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">1) delete the map. <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> You will probably see a lot of grey with a small white box. The white box is what gets printed. <span>Note that by default the layout is A4 size. You probably want Letter or Legal. <br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>2) Right click inside the white box (if you don't see the white box do 3 first)</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span> a) select Page Properties</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span> b) set the "Page Size" "Size". Legal and Letter are in the middle of the list.<br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>3)</span> left click the "zoom full" icon, 4th from the left, 2nd toolbar from the top.Then add a new map, this time fit it within the white area of the page. <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Then try exporting your image again.<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">-Thayer<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at 04:00:21 AM EDT, qgis-user-request@lists.osgeo.org <qgis-user-request@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
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<div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr">Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:01:34 -0700<br></div><div dir="ltr">From: ERT - Mike Breiding <<a href="mailto:epicroadtrips@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">epicroadtrips@gmail.com</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">To: Qgis <<a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">Subject: [Qgis-user] Layout questions<br></div><div dir="ltr">Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:4680b603-c5ae-1701-0c3d-83b5dcc683d6@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">4680b603-c5ae-1701-0c3d-83b5dcc683d6@gmail.com</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Greetings,<br></div><div dir="ltr">I have read over the documentation for the Layout.<br></div><div dir="ltr">I have added a map to the layout.<br></div><div dir="ltr">The view of the map is dim or obscured as it was behind a semi <br></div><div dir="ltr">transparent skin.<br></div><div dir="ltr">When I export the layout as an image only a portion of the map is saved.<br></div><div dir="ltr">I looked for an option such as "Fit map to layout size" but I could not <br></div><div dir="ltr">find anything.<br></div><div dir="ltr">There are screen shots here:<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/PuLieK9hYETMQFyy5" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://photos.app.goo.gl/PuLieK9hYETMQFyy5</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">If the map size is changed how does one refresh the layout to reload the <br></div><div dir="ltr">map?<br></div><div dir="ltr">Thanks,<br></div><div dir="ltr">WV-Mike<br></div><br></div>
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