Hi all, here I'm talking both as a client consultant and as a user (cartographer).
As many of you will know the cartographic production workflow often requires post-production activities involving specific external software to refine, compose, prepare layouts for printing. In my context I often have to interface with Adobe softwares professionals (Illustrator, inDesign, Photoshop) and, except for the simplest projects, it can be a pain the exchange of QGIS compositions, where a lot of work can be done but that, in certain situations, is lost because of QGIS Composer's output limitats. I love QGIS styling capabilities, I think they're reaching production grade quality. I think the time is come to consider how the output could be enhanced to make QGIS part of a complex workflow. E.g. some collegues would be ready to leave tools like Avenza MAPublisher if they could interoperate seamlessly between QGIS and Illustrator. Probably a more advanced PDF output would be the first step. One of the most important things would be the ability to export map layers as PDF layers/groups (tree model) to have it back when importing the PDF in external sw. I'm just scratching the surface of a wide discussion, which demands a lot of work, both from a conceptual and technical point of view. Direct printing (plotting) management is another related topic. I think it is worth spending some time to investigate it and share ideas, and when the it will be matured maybe a funding campaign could be a way to give it the needed resources. What's your opinion on this topic? Regards, Giovanni
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