Hi - this is just an initial short description on how to produce a multi layered pdf from Qgis. I am still playin around with it!
>From the composer save your map as SVG and tick the option "Export map layers as svg groups" when you have pressed save. Download the Scribus open source desktop publishing software ( Scribus Download <http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Download> ) and open the svg produced in map composer. The file will have no layers but map items are grouped reasonably layerwise. Click F6 or use "Window->layers" to open the layers window. Add say 10 empty layers. As a start everything is grouped in one big group so you have to ungroup by right clicking and choose ungroup. It can be a little tricky to see what you have been clicking on so right click and choose "Send to layers" and choose one of the created empty layers. By now turning this layer on and off you can see what was selected and perhaps you like to ungroup something further on. If satisfied rename the layer to something meaningful. Turn off this layer, go back to the Background Layer and repeat this process until all groups have got a layer assigned. Now press the pdf icon in the Scribus menu bar. Choose "PDF 1.5 (Acrobat 6)" as version and tick the "Include Layers" mark. Save and now you've got a pdf like this: Layered_PDF_from_Qgis.pdf <http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/file/n5193279/Layered_PDF_from_Qgis.pdf> (turn on the Layers Pane in Acrobat Reader to see and controll the layering). It is just a quick map made from OSM data - I can highly recommend the "Quick OSM" plugin for Qgis! I am having problems with maps using WMS - by some reason when opening the svg in Scribus the tiles from the WMS gets missaligned. One tile is right but the others are moved right and/or down outside the page. The svg look allright in Inkscape so I guess it is not a Qgis issue? Anybody got a clue? It is still quite a manual task and an automatic solution directly from Qgis would be lovely. I think a layered pdf is a very handy way to present you maps to non-gis people. Everybody knows a pdf! Nice weekend to everybody! ----- Regards Morten Currently using Qgis 2.6.1 (OSGeo4), Windows 7, 64bit -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/A-short-guide-on-producing-a-multi-layered-pdf-from-Qgis-tp5193279.html Sent from the Quantum GIS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
