yes - both would be very nice enhancements to the legend. Esp. Option
2. I don't always want to display a text for a legend or layer. So it
would be very nice being able to hide the headings (title/group/layer).
Andreas
On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 12:50:22 -0000, James Stott wrote:
The new composer works fine for me. Nice changes - I like the new
layout. It's really good to see the composer getting some work on it.
Nathan, just out of interest do you know how much effort it would
take to implement the following:
1) Text over two lines for legend item text
2) Tick boxes to allow you to turn off the following in the vector
legend on a composer:
a. Title text
b. Group text
c. Layer text
Number 1 above is really holding us back from producing our maps
straight from QGIS. Some of the text that we have to put in legends
is
too long to go on one line, and just goes off the edge of the page.
2c above, we do not always want to show text for a layer name (Layer
Text) but would rather show the text next to the swatch sample on the
legend (i.e. Item Text in the legend). At the moment to work around
this we have to set the layer name to nothing and use one of the rule
based renderers to get text into the item text. The downside with
this
is that if you want to do anything with the layers (i.e. use them in
any of the tools within QGIS); you cannot see the layer name in any
of
the drop down menus as we have set this to nothing. Having the
ability
to turn off the Layer text in the legend would enable us to give
layers names, but not have them show up on the legend.
James
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Neumann
Sent: 05 February 2012 15:23
To: Nathan Woodrow
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Composer redesign
Hi Nathan
I have changed the add shape to now behave like this. In the future
it
might be best to create a whole toolbar just for drawing stuff but
for now
this will do.
cool thanks! yeah - of course one can improve the drawing tools - but
the question is how far one should go. There are more powerful tools
for
drawing complex elements, like Inkscape.
I did have some ideas about creating a way to have custom objects so
that
you could create a title block from an image, a legend and a label,
then
save it as its own object you can drop onto the canvas pre-built.
However
that is a little out of my skills and time at the moment so I'll
leave that
up to someone else to play with if they are game.
Currently one can use the templates. This works fine for my purpose.
Thanks for the improvements. No issues so far - I will send a
bug-report
if I come across problems.
Andreas
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