[Qgis-developer] Composer grid issue

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi John

Do you still have the issue with the shift between composer map contents and 
the composer grid with current svn?
I did some prints with the nv_grid shape  this morning (to png, 200 dpi) and 
it seemed to be ok.

Regards,
Marco 

Am Dienstag, 20. Oktober 2009 19.27:53 schrieb John C. Tull:
> Hi Marco,
>
> As always, thanks for your great work and progress on the composer!
> I'll look forward to testing your changes.
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
> On Oct 19, 2009, at 11:26 PM, Marco Hugentobler wrote:
> > Hi John
> >
> > Thank you for reporting. I'm currently implementing the possibility
> > to rotate
> > the composer map and this changes a lot in the composer grid code.
> > Therefore,
> > I'm going to address this issue after the rotation code is in trunk.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Marco
> >
> > Am Montag, 19. Oktober 2009 22.44:56 schrieb John C. Tull:
> >> Marco,
> >>
> >> I was excited to see the new map composer grid feature. I tried it
> >> out
> >> on some field maps last week and found out that the grids were not
> >> accurate. I believe you might be able to reproduce an error with the
> >> attached test file. It appears to be a dpi issue, for some reason.
> >>
> >> Here are my steps:
> >> 1) Open a new qgis canvas and add the attached shapefile.
> >> 2) Verify that the projection (CRS) is set to epsg 26911 for the
> >> project.
> >> 3) Zoom in to a subset of the grid at approximately 1:100000 scale.
> >> 4) Open the map composer and add the map canvas to the composer
> >> canvas.
> >> 5) Turn on the composer grid with a 5000x5000 spacing.
> >> 6) Now, zoom in the map composer 4 or 5 times.
> >> 7) With the map layer selected, update the preview and note the
> >> offset
> >> between the two grids.
> >> 8) Output a png image at 300 dpi (should look correct).
> >> 9) Output a png image at 200 dpi (the offset should show).
> >>
> >> On another note, it would be nice to be able to suppress the
> >> scientific notation of the grid labels. In the UTM example I have,
> >> the
> >> scientific notation is actually a larger label than the full integer
> >> value.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> John
> >
> > --
> > Dr. Marco Hugentobler
> > HUGIS - GIS programming and consulting
> > Webereistrasse 66
> > CH-8134 Adliswil
> > marco at hugis.net
> > http://homepage.hispeed.ch/hugis

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Dr. Marco Hugentobler
HUGIS - GIS programming and consulting
Webereistrasse 66
CH-8134 Adliswil
marco at hugis.net
http://homepage.hispeed.ch/hugis