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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Hi Andreas,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>thank you for your message. „Label export“ sounds good, but I could not find it in 3.28. I searched the Processing Toolbox (PT) for „Label“ and for „export“ but had no luck.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>What I found in PT is „Extract labels“, but that crashed QGIS immediately the hard way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;font-weight:normal'>Your github leads me to</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Fix #51543 and make big forms more fluid by reducing calls to updateFieldDependencies #51836 <o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I am not sure what the connection to the labels is??<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I need those background boxes absolutely because that is what my customer wants to receive the data in.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Best regards, Uwe<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b>Von:</b> Andreas Neumann <andreas@qgis.org> <br><b>Gesendet:</b> Freitag, 3. März 2023 08:15<br><b>An:</b> gisfisch@t-online.de<br><b>Cc:</b> qgis-user <qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org><br><b>Betreff:</b> Re: [Qgis-user] how to export label background boxes<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Uwe,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>This might only be part of the solution - but starting from QGIS 3.24 there is a "label export" processing tool that exports the automatically placed labels to a data set containing the label parameters. I haven't checked though, if it also exports label backgrounds?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>See <a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/51836">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/51836</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>If it misses the export of the background - perhaps that can be added to that processing algorithm.You can either fix it yourself or ask a commercial support provider.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>But may I ask why you need these label backgrounds? Are you aware that QGIS has advanced masking available? Search for "selective masking" in QGIS. Label backgrounds in one layer can act as masks in other symbol layers.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Greetings,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Andreas<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, 1 Mar 2023 at 09:51, Uwe via QGIS-User <<a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif'>Hello list,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif'>does anybody know if there is a way to convert/export the QGIS label background graphics (eg boxes or ellipses) to shapes?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif'>For those who know ArcMap: what I need is what ArcMap creates when Annotation features are written to Shape format, that means: boxes surrounding their text strings like an envelope.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif'>Thanks and happy day, U.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>QGIS-User mailing list<br><a href="mailto:QGIS-User@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">QGIS-User@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>List info: <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a><br>Unsubscribe: <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><br>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>--<br>Andreas Neumann<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://QGIS.ORG" target="_blank">QGIS.ORG</a> board member (treasurer)<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>