[Qgis-user] ESRIs ArcGIS lyr-files

[Carson Farmer]

> Is there any tool to convert ESRIs lyr-files readable in QGIS? Or do
> ArcGIS have any other format-system that you can use in QGIS? For
> instance shp-files can get very stranges coulors or symbols if you
> open them in QGIS.

That's simply because shapefiles don't store symbology themselves. If
you want your layers to look like they do in ArcGIS, you have to
adjust the symbology of your layers (you can also create a style for
for your layers so that they always look the same when you load them).
This stuff is all available in the QGIS manual here:
http://qgis.org/en/documentation/manuals.html

Carson

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Carson J. Q. Farmer
ISSP Doctoral Fellow
National Centre for Geocomputation
National University of Ireland, Maynooth,
http://www.carsonfarmer.com/