Re: [Qgis-user] How to Rotate Labels for Line

[Lee Hachadoorian]

Thanks for confirmation. Maybe I'll log it as a feature request. I was able to get the effect that I wanted by using ST_Reverse() in database to flip the nodes of all the lines. Now labels print on right side in desired orientation. A bit of a hack, and I'll have to repeat it every time new version of source data is released, but it works. --Lee On 08/22/2015 06:21 PM, Tom Lennon wrote: Hi Lee; I agree using 2.8.3. Rotation around point features is limited to quadrant 1 and 4, the names cannot be turned upside down. Rotation of 120 degrees gives the same as -30 degrees. Rotation of 180 or -180 results in 0 rotation. However if the point feature is  set to label around the point the position of the name is altered and the end of the name is used to set distance from the point and the position is rotated 180 degrees. Turning the labels upside down on line features or even changing the label direction to off the line seems to not work. Tom On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Lee Hachadoorian <lee.hachadooria...@gmail.com> wrote: I need to add labels to a line layer which I want to sit on the "wrong" side of the line. I am trying to accomplish this by setting the label placement to: * Parallel * Below line only (Above line unchecked) * Line orientation dependent position * Rotation = 180 With "Show upside-down labels" on rendering tab set to always. This does succeed in printing label below line, but not rotating the label. I tried other rotation values, and they seem to have no effect. I also tried setting placement to Horizontal to see if Parallel was, basically, ignoring the rotation in order to force the label to be parallel, and that has no effect. I confirmed that rotation value does work as expected for polygon and point layers. I notice the docs (http://docs.qgis.org/2.8/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_vector/vector_properties.html#labels-menu) specifically say that rotation is available for point and polygon, but is silent on the issue of lines. And yet the option is present in the dialog box. Thanks, --Lee -- Lee Hachadoorian Assistant Professor in Geography, Temple University Assistant Director, Professional Science Master's in GIS http://geospatial.commons.gc.cuny.edu http://freecity.commons.gc.cuny.edu _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user -- tolen...@gmail.com -- Lee Hachadoorian Assistant Professor in Geography, Dartmouth College http://geospatial.commons.gc.cuny.edu http://freecity.commons.gc.cuny.edu

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