[Qgis-developer] New labeling engine: problems
Hi, I have encountered problems with the new labelling engine. I have a cadastral layer and I set labels over centroid, but the new labeling engine moves them very away from the centroid. See this attachment: http://hub.qgis.org/attachments/4116/label-bug.jpeg If I use the old engine, it works perfectly. I've reported on redmine with sample data to test: http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4634 Luca___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
Re: [Qgis-developer] New Labeling
Hi Andreas Yes they way that you have described generally seems logical with the exception that I don't understand why it should be necessary to specify fields for distance, X Y before rotation and position are enabled. I would have thought that all position options could be selected on a case-by-case basis with the defaults used where options aren't specified - that way there would be no need to create dummy fields. Is there a reason why this default solution is inappropriate? Andrew Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:39:20 +0200 From: Andreas Neumann a.neum...@carto.net Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] New Labeling: To: qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org Message-ID: 4e6fb168.9060...@carto.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi Andrew, The logic is that one often wants label positions separate from the actual geometry. The new label tool allows x/y positions not only for point geometries (where one can use the point geometry), but also for line and area features. If x/y columns are empty, QGIS uses the featurue geometry, if one manually moves the labels, x/y columns are used. This way one can mix manual and automatic labeling. If you want fully automatic labeling just create dummy x/y columns and never manually move labels around. Does it sound illogical to you? Andreas ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
[Qgis-developer] New Labeling:
I'm trying to find a way to use data defined positioning with the new labelling to replicate what is possible in the old labelling, namely aligning and rotating about the point specified for a layer. With the new labelling, fields have to be selected for label distance X Y coordinates before the horizontal vertical alignment plus rotation are enabled. Is there a logical reason why alignment and rotation aren't available by default? I tried creating a dummy field (always NULL values) and selecting it for distance, X Y. This enables the other fields (to the extent that I can select them), but they seem to have no effect. Am I missing something or do I need to file a bug report? Andrew ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
Re: [Qgis-developer] New Labeling:
Hi Andrew, The logic is that one often wants label positions separate from the actual geometry. The new label tool allows x/y positions not only for point geometries (where one can use the point geometry), but also for line and area features. If x/y columns are empty, QGIS uses the featurue geometry, if one manually moves the labels, x/y columns are used. This way one can mix manual and automatic labeling. If you want fully automatic labeling just create dummy x/y columns and never manually move labels around. Does it sound illogical to you? Andreas On 09/13/2011 04:58 PM, Andrew Chapman wrote: I'm trying to find a way to use data defined positioning with the new labelling to replicate what is possible in the old labelling, namely aligning and rotating about the point specified for a layer. With the new labelling, fields have to be selected for label distance X Y coordinates before the horizontal vertical alignment plus rotation are enabled. Is there a logical reason why alignment and rotation aren't available by default? I tried creating a dummy field (always NULL values) and selecting it for distance, X Y. This enables the other fields (to the extent that I can select them), but they seem to have no effect. Am I missing something or do I need to file a bug report? Andrew ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
