<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Chris, I could experiment with QGIS's cartography capabilities more if I could save my project, exit, and then resume working on it later. My other problem with QGIS interferes with that potential procedure.<br><br>Yes, aligning a single layer in another app with its true position is a problem. If I continue trying to do it this way, I'd probably also output meridians and possibly other clues (e.g., the British coastline) to allow aligning it properly.<br><br>Thanks for your perspective!<br><br><div dir="ltr">Michael McNeil</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 13, 2023, at 10:06, chris hermansen <clhermansen@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Michael and list,<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 10:00 AM Michael Edward McNeil via QGIS-User <<a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I'm an almost total novice with regard to GIS in general and QGIS in particular. Nonetheless I've been attempting to put together a test map (using data I will make use of, in part) utilizing the contour lines for the island of Great Britain – obtaining data in that regard from the space shuttle's worldwide Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM).<br>
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I obtained the data and loaded it into QGIS, no problem. After extracting the contours, the lines shown in QGIS are nice and sharp, and vectorize properly when zooming in and out. I'm using 100 meters between lines (rather than the default 10 m) which means that in some regions of the planet, they're not all that dense; nonetheless if you're looking at a larger scale view of, say, Wales or Scotland, the contour lines show up at that scale as generally pretty dense. The solution, of course, using vector graphics is to zoom in, then you can see the full detail.<br>
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Anyway, things are fine while still within QGIS (except for the secondary issue noted below). However, I wanted to output the vectorized contour lines into a file I could input into (e.g.) CorelDRAW to add other layers and do the graphical finishing touches on the desired map. I tried svg format – got the message about svg handling in QGIS being buggy – and indeed the svg output didn't seem to work.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Is there any reason you can't do your cartography within QGIS? Or at least, make a "simplified" draft map, save as an image or PDF, and then do whatever "graphical finishing" required in your desktop publishing application? <br></div><div><br></div><div>I think this would be a more "normal" approach, rather than exporting a layer by itself, if for no other reason than your geospatial information will be properly aligned by QGIS in the final product.<br></div></div><br clear="all"><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Chris Hermansen · clhermansen "at" gmail "dot" com<br><br>C'est ma façon de parler.</div></div></div>
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