[Qgis-user] Page setup in map composer

[Otto Dassau]

Hi Alister,

thanks a lot for your answer so now I better understand, I think. And I also
think that the current behavior is not really comfortable. Maybe it would be
better, if the File-Page Setup generally uses the settings from "General"
tab per default, because that is the normal case I guess (if you define a
A4 print layout you also want to print it as A4), but if you want or have to,
you can explicitly define a special printer setting and only print half of
the layouted map or whatever.

Would that make sense? Then we could add an enhancement ticket to the bug
tracker.

Regards,
 Otto

Am Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:09:35 +1300
schrieb "Alister Hood" <alister.hood at synergine.com>:

> > Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:51:00 +0100
> > From: Otto Dassau <otto.dassau at gmx.de>
> > Subject: [Qgis-user] Page setup in map composer
> > To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
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> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > in the map composer I wonder what the menu "File -> Page Setup" allows
> to
> > do. I haven't understood yet where the exact difference is compared to
> the
> > settings I can change in the General area "Page and quality"? Can
> someone
> > explain this to me?
> > 
> > Regards,
> >  Otto
> 
> Hi Otto, look at what it does:
> 
> - If I set the page to A3 landscape on the "General" tab, then use
> "File-Page Setup" (or access the printer preferences from "File-Print")
> to choose A4 portrait, I get an A4 printout showing only the left hand
> side of the composer layout.  
> 
> - If I change the "page setup" to A3 landscape I get the full A3
> printout.
> 
> So it looks like the settings on the "General" tab define a composer
> layout, which may be scaled, cropped, etc. according to the printer
> settings chosen.  "File-Page setup" provides quick access to the printer
> settings (and allows to change them without actually printing).
> 
> Also, the "Page setup"/printer settings are not connected to a
> particular composer layout (or project); they apply globally.  If I
> change them it affects printing of any composer layout in any project.
> Perhaps the current behaviour is a bug - for people that routinely work
> with different layout sizes it would certainly be better to
> automatically print on the size defined on the "General" tab (this is
> how CAD programs usually work; I'm not sure about other programs).  The
> current behaviour means you need to change the page layout settings
> every time you want to print any layout that is a different size from
> the last layout you printed.
> 
> Regards,
> Alister