[Qgis-developer] Re: SVGFill test

[John C. Tull]

Hi Marco,

I now realize that my butterfly svg has a halo border (I was trying to make them stand out as point symbols on dark backgrounds; no way to add a buffer to symbols yet like you can do with labels). Still it is unusual that it renders it so differently on my system than yours based on your screen grab.

Also, when I tested printing to pdf the fill patter from the composer, the svg is scaled up to a huge size, practically filling the entire map space with only one symbol. Have you tested a print to pdf yourself yet?

As a side note, it would be great to have an option in the symbol properties to adjust the spacing between repeats of the svg image fill. I.e., padding the repeated elements by some value so the spacing can be adjusted without having to manually change the svg symbol itself.

Cheers,
John

On Jan 16, 2010, at 1:03 PM, Marco Hugentobler wrote:

> Hi John
> 
> Hm, it works for me here (kubuntu 9.10).
> 
> See screenshot
> www.hugis.net/svgfill.png
> 
> Maybe a problem only on Mac?
> 
> Regards,
> Marco
> 
> Am Samstag, 16. Januar 2010 21.35:36 schrieb John C. Tull:
>> Hi Marco,
>> 
>> It seems to not work on shapefiles, postgis, etc. Here is a test shapefile
>> anyway. I used several standard svg symbols from the default selection,
>> none of which worked. Perhaps I did not try enough. The red and blue
>> asterisk thing is one. Here's one of my own that did not work also.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> John
>> 
>> On Jan 16, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Marco Hugentobler wrote:
>>> Hi John
>>> 
>>> Could you send me the svg file you used and a small test dataset where
>>> the problem happens? Like that, I could check if it works on my system or
>>> not.
>>> 
>>> The svg files I tested so far worked (but not all 100% correct, probably
>>> because of the Qt SVG classes).
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Marco
>>> 
>>> Am Samstag, 16. Januar 2010 19.25:54 schrieb John C. Tull:
>>>> Hi Marco,
>>>> 
>>>> I am quite interested in the progress you are making with the composer.
>>>> I tested the newly added svgfill a moment ago on my OS X system.
>>>> Unfortunately, despite changing the outline color to yellow and
>>>> providing an svg symbol for the fill, the layer remains unfilled and
>>>> with a black outline. I tested this on my ubuntu vm also, and no luck
>>>> there either. I am guessing this is a work in progress and I may be
>>>> jumping the gun. Otherwise, I must be doing something incorrectly or it
>>>> is broken.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> John
>> 
> 
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