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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">Firstly I would say that you should seriously think about updating your QGIS, as 2.18.28 is very old. The current long term release version is 3.28.5. QGIS 3 has many improvements over 2, and has been in development for long enough that the bugs are mostly worked out. I can not remember your specific issue from 2, but I know that labeling has been much improved recently in 3, with very good, but not necessarily perfect, correspondence between how labels look in the layout and how they look on exported pdf's and images, the difference is mostly just that occasionally a label will not shows up on an export when it is present in the layout. I have not noticed differences in size or font. The correspondence between labels in the map canvas and the layout/print is much improved also.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">You may want to try adjusting your map canvas scale to match the scale in the layout. I have found that there is usually a sweet spot where the map canvas labels display almost exactly the same as in the layout.<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 Thursday, April 6, 2023 at 06:14:49 AM EDT, qgis-user-request@lists.osgeo.org <qgis-user-request@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
</div><div><div dir="ltr">From: Michael Raymond <<a href="mailto:Michael.Raymond@northnorthants.gov.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Michael.Raymond@northnorthants.gov.uk</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">To: "qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" <<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] Question Re: Map Exporting (How to keep Map<br></div><div dir="ltr"> labels the same size when exporting Map as pdf or image via composer<br></div><div dir="ltr"> manager)<br></div><div dir="ltr">Message-ID:<br></div><div dir="ltr"> <<a href="mailto:CWXP123MB5785B6D324E95295D1E9FF1FB9919@CWXP123MB5785.GBRP123.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CWXP123MB5785B6D324E95295D1E9FF1FB9919@CWXP123MB5785.GBRP123.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr"> <br></div><div dir="ltr">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Good morning,<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I?m messaging as, when I export my Map as pdf (or as image) the labels on the Map are smaller than what is shown when I preview after ?drawing the map? in the composer manager.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">At present I can remedy this to an extent by lowering the MAP dpi in composer manager, but this obviously comes at the cost of the labels teetering on illegibility (which is just another version of the issue I?m trying to remedy in the first place). I understand a better remedy might be a case of converting the raster layer (which I am only presuming is the underlying map that I?m having issues with) ?from pixels to points? (or vice versa).<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">However, I have QGis version 2.18.28 and there doesn?t appear to be any explicit function pertaining to this, and indeed said remedy may in fact be something different entirely. Am open to any alternative resolutions if so, hope you can help?<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Note: Have attached a version of the Map which I?ve managed to sort based on lowering the dpi, which as you can see works ok but it would be preferred to have it clearer.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Regards,<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Mike Raymond ? Place Information Officer<br></div><div dir="ltr">Performance, Intelligence and Partnerships<br></div><div dir="ltr">North Northamptonshire Council<br></div><div dir="ltr">Cedar Drive, Thrapston, Northants NN14 4LZ<br></div><div dir="ltr">T: 0300 126 3000 | DD: 07423799714<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Twitter:@NNorthantsC<br></div><div dir="ltr">Facebook:@NorthNorthants<br></div><div dir="ltr">Web: www.northnorthants.gov.uk<<a href="http://www.northnorthants.gov.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.northnorthants.gov.uk/</a>><br></div></div>
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