[Qgis-user] Print Composer: Best Practices

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Can you tell me if this enable support for transparency?

I'm using 1.7.4 primarily, & working increasingly with v1.8, & I note that my 1.7.4 version does not support polygon transparency when overlaid on a bitmap background. Is there a solution to this?

Ay present my solution is a png export of the map added to the legend in a 3rd party application, again not ideal as the legend colours are incorrect as they are not transparent either.  

Brent Wood

--- On Sun, 7/29/12, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:

From: Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Print Composer: Best Practices
To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
Date: Sunday, July 29, 2012, 2:14 AM

Hi Gordon,

The PDF big file/slow display issues are a result of a bug in the
underlying qt library. The most recent QGIS versions 1.8 and 1.9x have a
patch applied to work around this bug.

What version on what platform are you using?

Andreas

Am 28.07.2012 01:49, schrieb Gordon Lane:
> Thanks to all who responded (and who may yet still). I'll try out the
> various tricks.
> 
> I have used a variety of PDF printers but still get issues with color and
> crispness (understanding that a autumn-crisp image will be a large file).
> 
> And I take back what I said about print composer being "useless" -- I just
> didn't pay attention to how it was working. I saw the legend wasn't the
> same in reloads, and assumed the rest was jacked up, too. Now I see it just
> adds layers you might have excluded from the legend before. My bad!
> 
> -Gordon
> 

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