[Qgis-developer] Shields for Labels

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi Tim

Cool, shields for labels are very usefull, both with rectangles or with svg 
background (probably in future). 
Rectangular shields are also well suited as a (computationally) fast 
alternative to font buffers.

I didn't yet look into the details of the code. From first tries of the label-
shield branch, it seems to me the shields currently don't appear nicely in 
composer printouts. Probably it needs the consideration of the output device 
resolution.

Regards,
Marco

Am Sonntag, 7. August 2011, 23.47:07 schrieb Tim Sutton:
> Hi Folks
> 
> Is anyone else interested in being able to have shields for labels
> (e.g. to mark highways etc.). I've made an initial stab at it - you
> can see an example and git details in case you want to try it in the
> link below. Is there any interest in getting this into trunk? Maybe a
> better way of doing things? I thought of using SVG shields but I think
> it might be a performance killer if you have many labels and each
> needs scaling.
> 
> http://linfiniti.com/2011/08/shield-labels-for-qgis/
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim


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