Hey James, Not sure how much would be involved with 1) I can look into for you and see what I can do. It would be a handy thing to have.
For 2) I normally just delete the text in the Legend Items tab for each item I don't want to show including layer names or group names. Does this do what you need? or have I missed something. - Nathan On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:50 PM, James Stott <[email protected]>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 > > > James Stott BSc (Hons) MSc | Senior Professional > Nicholas Pearson Associates | 30 Brock Street | Bath | BA1 2LN > T: 01225 445548 | M: - > http://www.npaconsult.co.uk/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Andreas 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 > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > http://www.npaconsult.co.uk/http://www.npaconsult.co.uk/about-news.asp > http://www.npaconsult.co.uk/terms.asp > This Electronic Transmission is intended only for the attention of the > addressee. It may contain privileged and confidential information. If you > are not the person for whom it is intended, you must not copy, distribute > or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this electronic > transmission in error please notify us immediately by telephone, delete the > transmission and destroy any hard copies. > Nicholas Pearson Associates has used all reasonable efforts to ensure that > this message and any attachments are free from viruses. > Nicholas Pearson Associates, 30 Brock Street, Bath, BA1 2LN , Tel: +44 (0) > 01225 445548, Fax: +44 (0) 01225 312387, Website: > http://www.npaconsult.co.uk/ > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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