[Qgis-user] Displaying a color ramp (color gradient) in the kegend

[Agustin Lobo]

Actually, reading again the message from Ramon I think that
I misunderstood him: he means that the vector tools for displaying the
color bar are not useful in this case, which is true.

Agus

2011/5/16 Manuel Spínola <mspinola10 at gmail.com>:
> Thank you very much Agus.
> Manuel
>
> 2011/5/16 Agustin Lobo <alobolistas at gmail.com>
>>
>> Manuel,
>>
>> You need 2 plugins from QGIS Contributed Repository
>> http://pyqgis.org/repo/contributed
>> 1-Band Raster Colour Table
>> Colour Scale Bar
>>
>> Check the authors web page:
>> http://www.bc-consult.com/free/bcccoltbl.html
>> http://www.bc-consult.com/free/bccscbar.html
>>
>> I disagree with Ramon. Color bars for raster layers are very useful
>> and actually a severe
>> insufficiency of QGIS 1.6
>>
>> Agus
>>
>> 2011/5/14 Ramon Andinach <custard at westnet.com.au>:
>> > Hi Manuel,
>> >
>> > On 30/04/2011, at 01:15 , Manuel Spínola wrote:
>> >
>> >> Dear list members,
>> >>
>> >> I am displaying a kriking converted to raster (.asc) and I would like
>> >> to dispaly a color ramp (color gradiente) in the legend.
>> >> How can I do that?
>> >>
>> >> Best,
>> >>
>> >> Manuel
>> >
>> > Did you have any luck with this?
>> >
>> > If you did, please ignore this. If you didn't here's a guess.
>> > The guess assumes you mean in the legend of a composer window.
>> >
>> > My understanding (which is limited) is that it's designed for vector
>> > data.
>> > So, it's probably not helpful for a raster like yours.
>> >
>> > But, if you could generate an image of the colour ramp as a png, jpg,
>> > etc. you could open that image and place it in your legend section.
>> > You could use the composer's text labels to indicate the range, and then
>> > it wouldn't matter if the text in the colour ramp was the wrong size.
>> >
>> > Hope that is helpful,
>> > -ramon._______________________________________________
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>> >
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