Hi Thanks Harrissou - yes I know about reports and did try to do it using that, but I don’t think it will help me in this case. Happy if someone can show me that I am wrong here :-)
Regards Tim > On 18 May 2018, at 09:54, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi Tim > > I don't know if it answers all your needs (haven't played with it yet, > myself) but you may give a look to the layout reporting framework. See > https://north-road.com/2018/01/23/exploring-reports-in-qgis-3-0-the-ultimate-guide > > Regards, > HarrissouLe 18 mai 2018 9:03 AM, Tim Sutton <[email protected]> a écrit : >> >> Hi All (mainly Nyall I guess) >> >> I have been playing with atlas in QGIS 3 to make a book prototype for a map >> series. In the past when I used atlas, it was just to share as a PDF or >> manually print out a map series. Now I want to prepare something to send to >> a printer and I realise the requirements are a little different: >> >> * have a page for the cover outside on the left side, back cover outside on >> the right >> * a page with front cover inside on the left and the right >> * have one or more ‘front matter pages’ with a matching back matter page for >> each >> * have the map series with each page having TWO maps from the map series. >> For example the first page would have on the left Page 1 and on the right >> Page 30 (where we have a 30 area series in atlas for example). Then the >> next page would have two map items : Page 2 on the left, Page 29 on the >> right and so on. >> >> So I can manage a lot of this workflow by e.g. using separate composer >> layouts for the front / back matter stuff. What I haven’t thought of a way >> to do is having two atlas pages on the same layout. Basically what is >> needed is the ability to trigger successive increments in the atlas counter >> if there are two maps (and other elements such as tables) that are >> controlled by atlas on the same layout. >> >> This is probably better explained by my diagram below: >> >> >> https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/178003/40220376-34c77d00-5a79-11e8-9c09-b1b338915de5.png >> >> >> So my questions are : >> >> 1) Has anyone dealt with this and if so, how did you solve it? >> 2) How much work would it be to enable support for this kind of work flow? >> 3) Are there any plans to have ‘print once’ pages in composer so that in a >> layout I could have pages for front matter in ‘print once’ mode, one or more >> atlas driven pages that will repeat for each atlas area, pages for back >> matter in 'print once’ mode. >> >> Basically if we had this I could make a single print-ready PDF from one >> layout. >> >> Thanks! >> >> Regards >> >> Tim >> >> >> >> >> >> >> — >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Tim Sutton >> >> Co-founder: Kartoza >> Ex Project chair: QGIS.org >> >> Visit http://kartoza.com to find out about open source: >> >> Desktop GIS programming services >> Geospatial web development >> GIS Training >> Consulting Services >> >> Skype: timlinux >> IRC: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net >> — Tim Sutton Co-founder: Kartoza Ex Project chair: QGIS.org Visit http://kartoza.com <http://kartoza.com/> to find out about open source: Desktop GIS programming services Geospatial web development GIS Training Consulting Services Skype: timlinux IRC: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net
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