[Qgis-developer] Print composer feature request

[Olivier Dalang]

Hi!

A copy/paste extents feature would also be very useful when working with a
lot of similar maps (that would fit very well in a contextual menu and
reasonably well next to the «set extent» button)

Olivier
On Feb 28, 2013 5:33 PM, "Andreas Neumann" <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:

> +1 for such a shortcut in the toolbar (with a drop-down menu if there are
> several maps?) or with a right-click context menu.
>
> I also find the current way of setting the extent quite complicated.
>
> Andreas
>
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:17:06 -0800 (PST), Régis Haubourg wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>> before creating a ticket, I would like to discuss a small new feature with
>> you.
>>
>> Setting a map extent to current MapCanvas extent is not quite simple for
>> users that want to open a map composer, rezoom it and print. The question
>> is
>> frequently asked to me.
>>  User has to select the map with the select tool first, then find the item
>> properties tab, then scroll to find the right button in the extent
>> collapsible group.
>>
>> I'm wondering how we could have some kind of shortcut to 'Set to map
>> canvas
>> extent' somewhere.
>> Could we imagine button in the toolbar next to select and navigate tool,
>> greyed out if no map object is selected? Any objection to that?
>>
>> I was also thinking of starting to enable right clic contextual menu on
>> objects, but that would need to some more options.
>> régis
>>
>>
>>
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