Hi Piotr and Jonathan,

thank you for your answers. I filed a ticket: http://hub.qgis.org/issues/6482

Some comments below.

Am 08.10.2012 12:37, schrieb Jonathan Moules:
> This seems to be a common problem with GIS labelling engines. They
> always assume you want the text the right way up even if its supposed to
> rotated the "wrong" way up. MapInfo does this, as does ArcGIS - The
> Maplex engine for ArcGIS does have an option allowing you over-ride this
> (disanled by default), but as best I can tell, short of using Maplex,
> none of these three packages allows you to override this "feature" .
> Jonathan

so it would be good to have it in QGIS then :-)

>
>
>
> On 5 October 2012 21:58, Piotr Pachół <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>     I am facing with the same problem.
> All labels with angle from 90 to 269 degrees are drawn in improper way.
>
>     Additionaly there are other problems during labelling:
>     1. it is necessary to to indicate coordinates x and y when you want
>     to rotate label. It shouldn't be necessary for point objects - then
>     insert point of label is as default insert point of object.

current master has an option to set an angle independent of defining x and y fields

>     2. When using rotating labels icon  - location of mouse indicator is
>     not always situated on line of rotation arrow. It is therefore
>     difficult to insert a label which should be for instance parallel to
>     another object.
>
>     Regards,
>     Piotr
>
>     W dniu 2012-10-04 17:54, Bernhard Ströbl pisze:
>
>         Dear list,
>
>         I am trying to get lables facing upside down with no avail. QGIS
>         always turns them around. So the label is drawn identically when
>         entering 0 or 180 degrees.
>         Is there any setting that forces QGIS to act like that? If this
>         is the default behaviour I would conider it a bug and report it.
>         I am using QGIS master with the new labelling engine.
>
>         regards
>
>         Bernhard
>
>

Bernhard


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