[Qgis-developer] Batch generation of map images with MTR

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi Richard,

You may also want to have a look at the Atlas serial printing. It is 
getting more and more powerful with each QGIS release.

Maybe it does what you need?

Andreas

On 06.11.2014 00:02, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
> Hey Richard,
>
> There is a new class you can use for the rendering because we now have 
> MTR you have to wait for the image, or listen for the done event.  The 
> code is pretty easy and you can see an example of me using it here:
>
> https://github.com/DMS-Aus/qgis2img/blob/master/qgis2img/render.py#L43
>
> The basics are:
>
>     job = QgsMapRendererParallelJob(settings)
>     job.start()
>     job.waitForFinished()
>     image = job.renderedImage()
>
> settings is a QgsMapSettings class which you can make or take from the 
> canvas using iface.mapCanvas().mapSetttings()
>
> QgsMapSettings has a list of layers to render so you can update that 
> without changing the layers on the canvas, it's very handy.
>
> Give that a try and see how you go.
>
> - Nathan
>
>
> On Thu Nov 06 2014 at 1:30:54 AM Richard Burkmar 
> <rich.burkmar at gmail.com <mailto:rich.burkmar at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     My apologies - I didn't check the latest version of MMQGIS so my
>     statement that the animation feature doesn't work with the latest
>     version of QGIS was incorrect. It seems that they have solved the
>     problem that I encountered, so I'll take a look at the code there.
>
>     (I hope that this message comes out in the correct thread - I
>     couldn't see how to do it, so I'm sending a message with the same
>     title. I'm new to these mailing lists.)
>
>     Rich
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