[Qgis-user] qgis and Large Format Print

[Ramon Andiñach]

On 23/11/2012, at 18:19 , haubourg wrote:

> Hi, 
> on XP, I installed shapely as described:
> - systematic crashes with pdf raster export 400 dpi. Memory usage going up
> to 762Mo (on 4Go) when crashing. When crashing, I hear HDD swapping a lot
> (confirmed on task manager). 
> Composer screen starts a refresh and goes blank. at the same time, I get a
> CPU peak to 100 %, and then crash message coming
> 
> - 300 dpi pdf raster export is generated
> 
> -  500 dpi does nothing, only a small CPU peak. Blank pdf is generated (2Ko)
> 
> 
> Then I uninstalled shapely wiht osgeo installer. Crashes keep on .. Not sure
> if I uninstalled correctly. 

Poot. Oh, well, so much for Friday afternoon optimism.

> I think we are not reproducing all cases but we start to have something
> reproducible. If others confirm, we could start to track it in hub.qgis.org? 

Yes, definitely. What you've made there is a project that reliably crashes the composer.

-ramon.