[Qgis-user] Output to pdf file doesn't contain vector details

[chris hermansen]

Michael and list.

On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 10:22 AM Michael Edward McNeil <memcneil02 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Chris, I could experiment with QGIS's cartography capabilities more if I
> could save my project, exit, and then resume working on it later. My other
> problem with QGIS interferes with that potential procedure.
>

Perhaps there is a degree of misunderstanding here.

When you work with say Microsoft Word to eventually produce a document that
you will export to PDF to send to others, you don't save your interim work
in PDF; you save it in Word's internal format, .docx.

Similarly with QGIS, you save an ongoing piece of work as a project. Look
at the Project menu item, where you will see the ability to Save or Save
As.  When you're ready to export your work to PDF or some other output
format, there is an "export work flow".

There is also an important QGIS component not immediately visible, which is
the Print Layout, also available in the Project menu item.

You might wish to follow through the online documentation here
https://docs.qgis.org/3.28/en/docs/training_manual/map_composer/map_composer.html
to see how that component is used to make a map, with surround, annotation,
etc ready for export to PDF as a finished product.

So the overall workflow is to assemble the various layers you wish to
depict on the main QGIS screen, applying symbology to each layer; then open
a print layout to wrap up what's on screen into a full map composition.


> Yes, aligning a single layer in another app with its true position is a
> problem. If I continue trying to do it this way, I'd probably also output
> meridians and possibly other clues (e.g., the British coastline) to allow
> aligning it properly.
>

Don't forget that you can add useful raster layers, like Open Street Map,
to your screen and map composition, to save yourself a lot of time with
respect to tracking down vector or raster data sets, symbolizing them, and
so forth.


-- 
Chris Hermansen · clhermansen "at" gmail "dot" com

C'est ma façon de parler.
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