[Qgis-developer] Composer: Labels/rasters are not exported to SVG

[Gavin Macaulay]

Stephan,

Those problems with the svg export from qgis are caused by bugs and 
unimplemented features in the Qt4 code that qgis uses when exporting to 
svg. I recently tried to work-around some of them, particularly the lack 
of text labels, but had no success.

Currently, the users expectation of svg export is higher than we can 
provide. I am planning on adding something to qgis to make people aware 
of this until qt4 does svg better.

Regards

Gavin

Stephan Holl wrote:
> Dear developers,
>
> I am in the position to search for a tool which can 'pimp' the maps
> generated by QGIS. I thought about inkscape which has nice
> vector-drawing capabilities.
>
> When I export from Mapcomposer into SVG, the resulting map does not
> look like I had them layouted in the Composer. 
>
> Some of my remarks:
> * Labels are not exported
> * filling-styles are ignored
> * Rasters are somewhat exported, but not shown in inkscape
> * no text-elements
>
> What would be really nice is that label- and general text-exort should
> work. This would improve the usability of the SVG-output greatly.
>
> Is there any chance to get (at least) some of the things done in one of
> the next releases? I thought that the label-stuff worked in 0.7.9
> (qt3-based), but I may be wrong.
>
> Best regards
>
> 	Stephan
>
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