[Qgis-user] Disable map update in Layout Editor?

[Emma Hain]

Hi Tobias
Please correct me if I am wrong but by clicking `Lock Layers` this may work
for you.
https://docs.qgis.org/3.40/en/docs/user_manual/print_composer/composer_items/composer_map.html#layers

Kind regards
Em

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On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 at 20:32, Tobias Schula via QGIS-User <
qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> is it possible to disable the updating of maps in the layout editor, once
> I
> have set scale and extend? I'm printing 15 different views on one A2 page.
> Every change I'm making is glacially slow, because even just moving an
> item or
> changing the zoom level will trigger a complete refresh of all maps at
> once!
> Just changing the margin of the page took me almost 1 hour. It didn't help
> that QGIS crashed once, because it ran out of RAM.
>
> Best regards
> --
> Tobias A Schula
> Forestry Expert
>
> geospatial at schula.org
>
>
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