[Qgis-user] Colouring lines

[Raymond Nijssen]

Hi Brett,

Yes you show them in different colours using a 'categorized' style.

However, you cannot save these colours in the shapefile since the format 
does not support styling. But you have a few options:

1. Save your QGIS project, including the coloured layer, as a project 
file (*.qgs)
2. Save your layer style as a QGIS map layer file (*.qml)

And hopefully soon in a new version of QGIS (check: 
http://hub.qgis.org/issues/859):

3. Add an extra field to your shapefile in which you store the rgb 
colour codes and create a data defined colour style on it.

Good luck,
Raymond


On 03/22/2013 07:51 AM, Brett Adams wrote:
>
> Hi Folks.
>
> I have 4 separate lines in one shp file. Can I colour them each 
> differently and give them each  a different pen style?  Will these 
> characteristics them be saved when into the shp file?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> *Brett Adams*
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