[Qgis-user] Label Rotation
Bernhard Ströbl
bernhard.stroebl at jena.de
Mon Oct 8 04:15:08 PDT 2012
Hi Piotr and Jonathan,
thank you for your answers. I filed a ticket:
http://hub.qgis.org/issues/6482
Some comments below.
Am 08.10.2012 12:37, schrieb Jonathan Moules:
> This seems to be a common problem with GIS labelling engines. They
> always assume you want the text the right way up even if its supposed to
> rotated the "wrong" way up. MapInfo does this, as does ArcGIS - The
> Maplex engine for ArcGIS does have an option allowing you over-ride this
> (disanled by default), but as best I can tell, short of using Maplex,
> none of these three packages allows you to override this "feature" .
> Jonathan
so it would be good to have it in QGIS then :-)
>
>
>
> On 5 October 2012 21:58, Piotr Pachół <piotrpachol at gmail.com
> <mailto:piotrpachol at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I am facing with the same problem.
> All labels with angle from 90 to 269 degrees are drawn in
improper way.
>
> Additionaly there are other problems during labelling:
> 1. it is necessary to to indicate coordinates x and y when you want
> to rotate label. It shouldn't be necessary for point objects - then
> insert point of label is as default insert point of object.
current master has an option to set an angle independent of defining x
and y fields
> 2. When using rotating labels icon - location of mouse indicator is
> not always situated on line of rotation arrow. It is therefore
> difficult to insert a label which should be for instance parallel to
> another object.
>
> Regards,
> Piotr
>
> W dniu 2012-10-04 17:54, Bernhard Ströbl pisze:
>
> Dear list,
>
> I am trying to get lables facing upside down with no avail. QGIS
> always turns them around. So the label is drawn identically when
> entering 0 or 180 degrees.
> Is there any setting that forces QGIS to act like that? If this
> is the default behaviour I would conider it a bug and report it.
> I am using QGIS master with the new labelling engine.
>
> regards
>
> Bernhard
>
>
Bernhard
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