Hi Tom, Do you mean, you want to generate an atlas, or a serial print?
QGIS doesn't support this out of the box, but it should be somehow possible with Python scripting. Most of the print composer should be exposed for Python, so you can place all your map layout elements, such as scalebar, gridlines, etc. with Python, generate images and then use something like XSL-FO, or ODF to generate a book out of it.
A serial print would be an interesting future feature though. It would, for example also be nice if one could specify a linear feature (or group of selected features), e.g. a freeway or a powerline, and QGIS would automagically tile and serial print along this feature ... would be nice to have ;-) For a regular grid, potentially with some small overlap, it should be easier.
Sorry that I can't help more. Andreas On 8/26/10 6:06 PM, Tom White wrote:
Hello, all. I'm trying to make map books for a volunteer fire station. I've done it in another (commercial) package, and it goes something like this: Divide the area up into reasonably sized rectangles, with an aspect ratio similar to the final page size (for instance, 2x3 arc seconds). Create page images (with labeling as detailed as possible) Create page feature dumps (basically a list of features on the page that are then tied back to an index) And from there it's imagemagick, textutils and other hacks to get it into a book format. Has anyone attempted to make any sort of map books with QGis, or does anybody know how it might be done? _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
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