[Qgis-user] Fwd: Possible Bug - Print Composer Save doesn't preserve status

[David Fawcett]

I tried to send this to the dev list, but got bounced.  Thanks, David.
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From: David Fawcett <david.fawcett at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 9:36 PM
Subject: Possible Bug - Print Composer Save doesn't preserve status
To: qgis-developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>


I looked through the Issue Tracker and didn't see anything related to
this.

I am working on a project where I am cleaning up data and then exporting
each individual layer as a vector .pdf.  I configure the print composer to
my output params, etc. and then export a few layers, and then save the
project.  When I return to the project, I may have a new data layer that I
want to export in the same print composer so it aligns with the previously
exported layers.

The problem is that when I open up a saved project and then open a saved
composer template (Project>Print Composers), the map element that I had
previously added is not there.  Because there is no way that I will be able
to add the map element again and get it exactly aligned with the map
element in the last instance of the map project, I have to start the
process of exporting my layers all over again.

Is it expected that a user can save a print composer with a map element and
then return to that composer and see the map element from the previously
saved project/composer, or am I expecting something that is beyond standard
behavior?

If you think that this is a bug, I am happy to file an issue.

I am running the below version from William's OSX binaries:

QGIS version2.2.0-ValmieraQGIS code revision
Compiled against Qt4.8.5Running against Qt4.8.5Compiled against GDAL/OGR
1.10.1Running against GDAL/OGR1.10.1Compiled against
GEOS3.4.2-CAPI-1.8.2Running
against GEOS3.4.2-CAPI-1.8.2 r3921PostgreSQL Client Version 9.3.1SpatiaLite
Version4.1.1QWT Version6.0.2PROJ.4 Version480QScintilla2 Version2.8

Thank you,

David.
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