Hi Nikos Thanks for this. Just to be clear are you making your work available for inclusion into QGIS source tree? If so I will look at adding your icons because it would be useful to have some direction arrows available by default to go along with Magnus' symbol rotation work.
Regards Tim On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 03:24 +0100, Nikos Alexandris wrote: > Dear QGIS community, > > I've scratched some "north arrows" (using inkscape, based on one of > defaults) that can be used as a point symbol. They are simple .svg files > (including one file called northarrow_source.svg which can be used for > further editing). > > Hope you also like the "rotation field" and "area scale field" options > under Layer Properties, Point Symbol as I do. For example they can be > used with an "aspect" and an "area" column of a point-vector's attribute > table. Hopefully you enjoy those options as I do. > > Cheers, Nikos > --- > > 1. Decompress the zip file > > 2. Rename if necessary (that is if it happens that you already have > added extra north arrows and you don't want to overwrite anything - if > you just have the defaults skip this and worry about it in the future > when your northarrow collection becomes bigger ;-). > > 3. Copy/Move the files (except of the northarrow_source.svg) to the > directory "/usr/local/share/qgis/svg/north_arrows/". This steps needs > sudo (...sorry, I don't know what should be the corresponding folder in > windows). > > 4. Launch qgis and test/enjoy :-) > > > Screenshots at: > http://www.imageshack.gr/view.php?file=n70dtdthvljo3yms0mmy.jpeg > http://www.imageshack.gr/view.php?file=ep4icmtn5egof2swjz6w.jpeg > http://www.imageshack.gr/view.php?file=4rmcgkfk96n2lwqtknhd.jpeg > http://www.imageshack.gr/view.php?file=jb7na2w1ucrmjrwxf0hx.jpeg > http://www.imageshack.gr/view.php?file=in0fj7gwwts7khqf2gth.jpeg > http://www.imageshack.gr/view.php?file=3l2l2ysed33d9nj15cmf.jpeg > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user -- Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release Manager) ============================================== Visit http://linfiniti.com to find out about: * QGIS programming services * Mapserver and PostGIS based hosting plans * FOSS Consulting & Support Services Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net ==============================================
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