<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Thanks to Mike, Richard and Guus for your advice - much appreciated. </div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">It looks like the problem was a question of Styles - some of the polygons on the map were filled with 'Point Fill'. When I changed them to a simple fill of grey, export to SVG and PDF worked OK. Hooray. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:
16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">For the record, I use a Mac with Mountain Lion OS and and i5 processor. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">David Asquith</div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block; "> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size:
12pt; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Wednesday, 9 October 2013, 12:48, Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings@duif.net> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">On 09-10-13 13:04, David wrote:<div class="yqt1717434194" id="yqtfd39406"><br clear="none">> Using Qgis 1.8, when I try to export my composed map as an SVG or PDF<br clear="none">> file I get a warning about known problems. Also, Qgis usually but not<br clear="none">> always crashes when exporting.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> What to do? Has this been fixed in Qgis 2.</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Hi David,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">for what I know the problem is the fact that it is not QGIS itself that<br clear="none">writes the svg/pdf, but the underlying widget library (Qt).<br clear="none">So unless Qt has fixed these known problems, they will still be there.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">BUT: did you
have those problems? You can always try and see what<br clear="none">happens :-)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Depending on your needs (and the complexity of your maps), I also wrote<br clear="none">a 'SimpleSVG'-plugin, which works for simple maps, and outputs<br clear="none">structured svg, specially crafted to be used in Inkscape for further<br clear="none">processing there.<br clear="none">So this would be another experiment to try.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Regards,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Richard Duivenvoorde<div class="yqt1717434194" id="yqtfd10819"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>