Hi Stefan, On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 5:17 PM, SBL <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Larry > > Good to hear, that it could be helpful for someone (when working properly)! > Please feel free to repurpose the code! That`s the idea of open source, > is`nt it?
Thanks. Just thought I'd ask, first. > Regarding your problems running the plugin: > In some cases, the boarder of the mapComposer is not rendered in black > (which stopps the while loops). This can happen, when there are no dark > pixels in the map closed to the border. > Then the while loops can run into infinitive-looping. Yes, I'm seeing something similar (on Mac 10.6.8, Python 2.6, Qt 4.7.4), but I also never get any output. The plugin just skips ahead as if the TIFF was created, when it hasn't been, if QGIS doesn't spin up and freeze with high cpu usage instead. Looking forward to testing out your improvements, as your plugin will be very helpful for having custom maps in the field, but built and maintained in QGIS. > Regarding your ideas for input parameters: > I am not sure if your ideas are related to the GarminCustomMap-plugin or > related to a new high-resolution "tiff"-export. Sorry about the confusion. Those ideas were part of the GeoTIFF export plugin. Got carried away while writing the email. I did find much of your Composer code in the PyQGIS Cookbook, but liked your approach for trimming the map before saving. I've put together most of the interface of my suggested plugin [1]. No actual work being done yet, and I'm not 100% sure I've got the interface calculations right. It'll be a mini-frontend to leveraging Composer to produce a flat, georeferenced TIFF of one's canvas, within a given area of interest and optional alpha masking. Intending to use it for producing output to bring into MAPublisher in Illustrator. I wonder why Composer doesn't already have georeferenced TIFF export functionality? Or, offer any of gdal's raster formats, for that matter? (Apart from someone not having the time to craft the C programming yet.) Thanks for helping me get the idea for the plugin. [1] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4058089/qgis/canvas2geotiff.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4058089/qgis/canvas2geotiff.tgz Best regards, Larry Shaffer Dakota Cartography Black Hills, South Dakota _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
