+100 to stick with current behaviour. My canvas extent very rarely reflects desired extend and scale of my composer layouts
That said, for your use case, maybe you want to implement a [x] keep extend and scale synchronised with canvas. Off by default :) On 11 Jun 2016 18:52, "Nathan Woodrow" <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 for what is currently there. One of the main reasons I move from > MapInfo to QGIS was this, annoying when you are editing and return to print > and it's moved on you. > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 9:44 PM, Anita Graser <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Paolo Cavallini <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Il 2016-06-10 19:34 DelazJ ha scritto: >>> >>>> You mean the first time the print layout is opened (created). If so, >>>> yes this is the way it used to work (and I think it still does): at >>>> the creation the map extent is picked from the canvas. >>>> >>>> But imo there's no reason to have the composer map item extent synced >>>> with map canvas each time it's opened. >>>> >>> >>> I'm not sure this is what an user expects. IMHO the typical use case is: >>> I zoom to the area and scale of interest, open a print layout, and go on >>> printing the same area. >>> Am I the only one expecting this? >> >> >> Maybe I'm just used to the current behavior, but for most of my usecases >> the extent of the print map should stay same while I might be busy fixing >> details in the main window (and thus zooming and panning around there). >> >> That's why the current behavior works well for me. >> >> (cc-ing the UX list for input) >> >> Best wishes, >> Anita >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> QGIS-UX mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-ux >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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