> On 29/08/2015 13:24, Oliver Eichler wrote: >> >> There is no difference in rendering the view to a screen or a printer. >> > > Absolutly not ... > >
This is a map printed by QLGT into a PDF: http://qlandkarte.org/qlgt.pdf This is the same view taken as a screenshot using Gimp and printed by Gimp into a PDF: http://qlandkarte.org/gimp.pdf There is no difference in quality. There can't be. Because the map view is rendered into a pixel buffer of the size of the map view on your screen. With the very same resolution as your screen. When printing the view the buffer is sent to the printer device and interpolated to the printer's resolution. The same is done when printing in Gimp. Thus if there is a difference in quality, it is just because the bitmap software used to print the screenshot is doing a bad job in scaling the bitmap. Gimp does a good job. Besides I really have no use-case for printing maps. It's more the other way around, getting paper maps into the software and the GPS device. And for documentation I never needed the full map view. I always used just a part. So I had to do a screenshot anyway. After implementing printing in QLGT I never used it. And I am fed up with spending time on stuff I do not use myself. You never get a favour for doing it. You just get complains as there is always one who has another point of view on how things should work. Funny enough none of them comes up with a better working solution. Seems like complaining is easier than donating time. So if printing is that crucial to you and you don't like using Gimp, stick to QLandkarte or use another software. There are plenty others. QuoVadis is a commercial software, that is told to have quite good printing capabilities. And there is QGis. Not easy to use but I have heard they can print large areas on several pages. There is always an alternative... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Qlandkartegt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users
