[Qgis-user] export as vector graphic

[Alister Hood]

Hi everybody,

> Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 12:04:55 +0200
> From: Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] export as vector graphic
> To: Marco Hugentobler <marco.hugentobler at sourcepole.ch>
> Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Message-ID: <8d2ae16abf3640208b252776c4e54d1e at carto.net>
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> > Oh, is this with the 'exportPDF' button (or pdfcreator). With
> > 'exportPDF', it
> > should be exported as vector, at least it does for me on Linux here.
> 
>  printing through gdi/pdfcreator results in a rasterized PDF.

In my testing it creates a vector or a rasterized or a partly rasterized PDF, depending on what is on the composer layout.  See my comments and attachments in Trac in #3250.

>  Printing
>  through the exportPDF results in a very large PDF which cannot be loaded
>  by Inkscape and also SumatraPDF. AdobeReader opens it, but it takes
>  ages. I am not entirely sure if it is raster or vector. If I zoom in
>  very closely it looks pixelized. It almost seems like a multilayered
>  raster (each QGIS layer is a rasterized layer in the PDF).

Yes, I get a multilayer rasterized PDF.  There is at least one bug report which relates to this, too.
 
>  With Linux, all seems fine, either way. It stays as a vector with both
>  ways to generate a PDF.
> 
>  Maybe some problem with the Windows qt version in user at the OSGeo
>  distribution?
> 
>  Andreas
> 
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Alister