[Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

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On 6/7/2011 1:18 AM, maning sambale wrote:
> A gallery showing what you can do with Map Composer would be very
> helpful.  Many users (like me) would often discover a new
> functionality if there are examples (which is why linifiniti blog is
> what I usually visit).
>
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Paolo Cavallini<cavallini at faunalia.it>  wrote:
>>> I often hear people complain about missing features in the print
>>> composer, but I think that at the current trunk version it is already
>>> quite powerful and maybe the people just aren't aware about some
>>> functionality.
>
>
After putting a certain amount of objects in a project, print composer 
would lockup. I don't recall exactly how many objects were in the 
project before it ceased to function but I ended up with about 45,000 
objects in the .svg file. Specifically, when it came time to print or to 
export to file, it would lock up, crash really, with error message. The 
other thing was the way it handles polylines. I was trying to make 
highway polylines render correctly but there was a difference between 
what was seen on screen and what was actually printed. The polyline 
widths on screen were scaled too large compared to what I was actually 
trying to do. When printed I noticed they printed correctly. Getting the 
endpoints and intersections of two polylines to merge correctly didn't 
work either. I was trying to represent complex interchanges at the 
intersection of two highways with on-ramps etc. Couldn't do it. Polyline 
patterns are clumsy and difficult to set to useful patterns. Setting a 
scale is difficult. Maybe a wizard would help setting scale. Labeling is 
an issue. With tens of thousands of objects producing a clearly labeled 
print becomes a problem. It was tough even in Inkscape. Sometimes labels 
had to broken down into objects and each letter manipulated manually to 
make them appear in a readable fashion. I never really did figure out 
the labeling to my satisfaction but in the end just went with what I 
had, compromising just to get something out the door. The biggest 
problem though was print composer locking up while printing after I had 
all my coverages turned on. Perhaps a memory issue? I had 4gb of ram, 
not enough? I have bigger projects in mind and I'm not sure even 
Inkscape will be able to handle what I want to do.