<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Joe</div><div><br></div><div>If these labels are curved, they will always be individual letters. However, the others should work as you expect.</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Kind regards</div><div>Em</div><div><br></div><div style="margin-bottom:20px;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#444444">Emma Hain — Product Manager/Senior GIS Analyst<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Sure, but that in almost all cases renders labels not as text strings (1 string for every label), but as text characters (1 character for every letter in
a label)....<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 06/05/2025, 09:20, "DelazJ" <<a href="mailto:delazj@gmail.com" target="_blank">delazj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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While exporting, try with selecting the "Text export" option as "Always render labels as text"<br>
<<a href="https://docs.qgis.org/3.40/en/docs/user_manual/print_composer/create_output.html#export-as-pdf" target="_blank">https://docs.qgis.org/3.40/en/docs/user_manual/print_composer/create_output.html#export-as-pdf</a>> which points to<br>
<<a href="https://docs.qgis.org/3.40/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_vector/vector_properties.html#render-labels-text" target="_blank">https://docs.qgis.org/3.40/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_vector/vector_properties.html#render-labels-text</a>>.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Le 6 mai 2025 07:55:50 GMT+02:00, "Kobben, Barend (UT-ITC) via QGIS-User" <<a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>> a écrit :<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">That has been a long-standing complaint of mine (once filed a bug
</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><a href="https://issues.qgis.org/issues/3975" target="_blank">3975</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"> of which this was part). It’s now declared closed, but it still is not in my opinion, and
I always use SVG export to achieve fulley editable text labels....</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 05/05/2025, 23:21, "QGIS-User" <<a href="mailto:qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">When I export maps to pdf , I need the labels to be editable and not broken up into individual letters. Is this possible?<br>
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Joe LeMonnier<br>
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