[Qgis-developer] Composer redesign

[Nathan Woodrow]

Hey James,

Not sure how much would be involved with 1) I can look into for you and see
what I can do.  It would be a handy thing to have.

For 2) I normally just delete the text in the Legend Items tab for each
item I don't want to show including layer names or group names.  Does this
do what you need? or have I missed something.

- Nathan

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:50 PM, James Stott
<James.Stott at npaconsult.co.uk>wrote:

> The new composer works fine for me. Nice changes - I like the new layout.
> It's really good to see the composer getting some work on it.
>
> Nathan, just out of interest do you know how much effort it would take to
> implement the following:
>
> 1)      Text over two lines for legend item text
> 2)      Tick boxes to allow you to turn off the following in the vector
> legend on a composer:
>        a.      Title text
>        b.      Group text
>        c.      Layer text
>
> Number 1 above is really holding us back from producing our maps straight
> from QGIS. Some of the text that we have to put in legends is too long to
> go on one line, and just goes off the edge of the page.
>
> 2c above, we do not always want to show text for a layer name (Layer Text)
> but would rather show the text next to the swatch sample on the legend
> (i.e. Item Text in the legend). At the moment to work around this we have
> to set the layer name to nothing and use one of the rule based renderers to
> get text into the item text. The downside with this is that if you want to
> do anything with the layers (i.e. use them in any of the tools within
> QGIS); you cannot see the layer name in any of the drop down menus as we
> have set this to nothing. Having the ability to turn off the Layer text in
> the legend would enable us to give layers names, but not have them show up
> on the legend.
>
> James
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
> qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Neumann
> Sent: 05 February 2012 15:23
> To: Nathan Woodrow
> Cc: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Composer redesign
>
> Hi Nathan
>
> > I have changed the add shape to now behave like this.  In the future it
> > might be best to create a whole toolbar just for drawing stuff but for
> now
> > this will do.
>
> cool thanks! yeah - of course one can improve the drawing tools - but
> the question is how far one should go. There are more powerful tools for
> drawing complex elements, like Inkscape.
>
> > I did have some ideas about creating a way to have custom objects so that
> > you could create a title block from an image, a legend and a label, then
> > save it as its own object you can drop onto the canvas pre-built. However
> > that is a little out of my skills and time at the moment so I'll leave
> that
> > up to someone else to play with if they are game.
>
> Currently one can use the templates. This works fine for my purpose.
>
> Thanks for the improvements. No issues so far - I will send a bug-report
> if I come across problems.
>
> Andreas
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