It does need to account for differing sizes of text 1-4 characters ( at least I've seen that variety). What about a hybrid system where for a given symbology set, a static image is generated from SVG+text and then used for all renderings of it at a given scale and cached for future use? The ability to create new highway type symbols is fairly important as that varies widely throughout the world. I could also see symbol constrained labels in general being an awesome feature.
Look forward to testing, especially pdf/svg export - the label should be editable (text) but not necessarily the symbol. Thanks, Alex On 08/07/2011 03:09 PM, Nathan Woodrow wrote: > I think that is a good idea and the implementation is in the correct place. > I would like to see it in trunk, as I have a project that already need > something like this. > Yeah I wouldn't use SVG for label stuff, labels need to be as fast as > possible and I think it defiantly would have killed performance. > > - Nathan > > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Tim Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Folks >> >> Is anyone else interested in being able to have shields for labels >> (e.g. to mark highways etc.). I've made an initial stab at it - you >> can see an example and git details in case you want to try it in the >> link below. Is there any interest in getting this into trunk? Maybe a >> better way of doing things? I thought of using SVG shields but I think >> it might be a performance killer if you have many labels and each >> needs scaling. >> >> http://linfiniti.com/2011/08/shield-labels-for-qgis/ >> >> Regards >> >> Tim >> >> -- >> Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release Manager) >> ============================================== >> Please do not email me off-list with technical >> support questions. Using the lists will gain >> more exposure for your issues and the knowledge >> surrounding your issue will be shared with all. >> >> Visit http://linfiniti.com to find out about: >> * QGIS programming and support services >> * Mapserver and PostGIS based hosting plans >> * FOSS Consulting Services >> Skype: timlinux >> Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net >> ============================================== >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-developer mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
