[Qgis-developer] advanced printing branch 2

[John C. Tull]

Marco,

I ended up needing to print a map yesterday so I tried your branch.  
The legend looks quite good now with proper symbol scaling. That is a  
huge improvement.

Cheers,
John

On Jan 13, 2009, at 1:26 AM, Marco Hugentobler wrote:

> Hi John
>
> Thank you for the feedback.
> r9965 now scales the pattern in the legend boxes with the same  
> factor as in
> the composer map.
>
> I still need to investigate the QBrush scaling, as the pattern  
> output looks
> different depending on the print file format (ps, pdf, png).
>
> Regards,
> Marco
>
> Am Monday 29 December 2008 02:02:42 schrieben Sie:
>> Marco,
>>
>> The source builds well on my OS X system. I have not put it through
>> its paces, but it looks good so far. I still have the problem with
>> unusual scaling of pattern fills for vector polygons that I recently
>> reported. Attached is a screenshot of that problem.
>>
>> Happy New Year as well,
>> John
>>
>> On Dec 24, 2008, at 5:57 AM, Marco Hugentobler wrote:
>>> Dear qgis devs,
>>>
>>> The advanced printing branch 2 is ready to be tested now that
>>> feature freeze
>>> is over. You can obtain the sources with:
>>>
>>> svn co http://svn.osgeo.org/qgis/branches/advanced_printing_branch2
>>>
>>> In the branch, there are some new features (all inside the print
>>> composer):
>>>
>>> - alignment of items
>>> - snapping of items to a grid
>>> - preview for svg images
>>> - composer templates
>>>
>>> Please report any issues you find with those new features. I'm going
>>> to be in
>>> vacations for some time and will adress them in the new year.
>>>
>>>
>>> Merry christmas and happy new year,
>>> Marco
>
> -- 
> Dr. Marco Hugentobler
> Institute of Cartography
> ETH Zurich
> Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee