[Qgis-user] Splitting map in 'pages' of equal size for atlas

[Vincent Picavet]

Hello Paulo,
The coverage layer creation is something which is dealt outside of the 
composer, for example by the "Grid for Atlas" plugin :
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Le jeudi 27 février 2014 14:01:33, Paulo van Breugel a écrit :
> Perhaps to further clarify my question, have a look at
> http://www.gis-sig.org/programs/mapbooks/CreatingMapBooks.pdf for such an
> implementation in ArcGIS (e.g., slide 7)
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Paulo van Breugel
> 
> <p.vanbreugel at gmail.com>wrote:
> >  Hi, I would like to build an atlas (book) using the composer. To split a
> > 
> > map in parts, one would need to define a coverage layer. For an atlas,
> > this need to be a regular grid, which size should depend on the paper
> > format, layout, scale and percentage overlap. The easyprint plugin used
> > to offer this functionality, but I don't see how to create such a grid
> > in the current 'create atlas' function in the composer.
> > 
> > Paulo