Re: Print Composer Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-09-16 Thread Andreas Neumann
we have a meeting next Thursday and I hope that we can include this in the next batch of improvements. Andreas On 09/16/2011 07:34 AM, Ramon Andiñach wrote: > > On 08/06/2011, at 02:47 , Andreas Neumann wrote: > > > >> >>> 4. I'm also interested in the multicolumn feature. >> >> the Swiss QGI

Re: Print Composer Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-09-15 Thread Ramon Andiñach
On 08/06/2011, at 02:47 , Andreas Neumann wrote: > >> 4. I'm also interested in the multicolumn feature. > > the Swiss QGIS users discussed this already. I have to check tomorrow if > this is already in the pipeline (if we already have a sponsor). Will let > you know tomorrow. > > Andreas H

Re: Missing features in print-composer, was: Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-08 Thread Andreas Neumann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/08/2011 06:29 PM, Sindile Bidla wrote: > I dont know whether qgis has the ability to create a mapbook - i think this > would be a nice feature to have > this is not yet possible, but I think a lot of the functionality to create such a feature i

Re: Missing features in print-composer, was: Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-08 Thread Giovanni Manghi
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 18:29 +0200, Sindile Bidla wrote: > I dont know whether qgis has the ability to create a mapbook - i think > this would be a nice feature to have +1, there is already the ticket open in the Trac, can please add it to the wiki page? cheers -- Giovanni -- ___

Re: Missing features in print-composer, was: Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-08 Thread Sindile Bidla
I dont know whether qgis has the ability to create a mapbook - i think this would be a nice feature to have On 8 June 2011 16:21, Borys Jurgiel wrote: > Dnia wtorek, 7 czerwca 2011 o 13:27:39 Andreas Neumann napisał(a): > > Please report the feature requests. > > Dnia środa, 8 czerwca 2011 o 14

Re: Missing features in print-composer, was: Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-08 Thread Borys Jurgiel
Dnia wtorek, 7 czerwca 2011 o 13:27:39 Andreas Neumann napisał(a): > Please report the feature requests. Dnia środa, 8 czerwca 2011 o 14:27:47 Marco Hugentobler napisał(a): > Thank you for the feedback. To collect the ideas, please add them to the > wiki (http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Ideas_for_enhanc

Re: Print Composer Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-08 Thread Marco Hugentobler
Hi all Thank you for the feedback. To collect the ideas, please add them to the wiki (http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Ideas_for_enhancement_print_composer) Regards, Marco Am Dienstag, 7. Juni 2011, 20.47:04 schrieb Andreas Neumann: > > Two for grids: > > 1. At times I'd like some options other than

Re: Print Composer Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-08 Thread Ramon Andinach
On 08/06/2011, at 02:47 , Andreas Neumann wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > >> Two for grids: >> 1. At times I'd like some options other than solid lines or crosses for grid >> lines. Probably dashed or dotted lines would do. > > this would be probably easy to do. > >

Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-07 Thread .
I can see that several of my concerns with composer are being addressed. I suspected that some of the problems were with libraries. QGIS, Inkscape, and GIMP have trouble printing my files (svg, ps, pdf). ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo

Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-07 Thread Andreas Neumann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi again, > After putting a certain amount of objects in a project, print composer > would lockup. I don't recall exactly how many objects were in the lockup during composing or during printing? or during export? > project before it ceased to funct

Re: Print Composer Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-07 Thread Andreas Neumann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Two for grids: > 1. At times I'd like some options other than solid lines or crosses for grid > lines. Probably dashed or dotted lines would do. this would be probably easy to do. > 2. At other times I'd really like an easier way to put up grids i

Re: Print Composer Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-07 Thread Ramon Andinach
On 07/06/2011, at 13:24 , Paolo Cavallini wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 05:57:43 +0200, Andreas Neumann > wrote: >> what features specifically in the print composer are missing? >> >> I often hear people complain about missing features in the print >> composer, but I think that at the current tr

Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-07 Thread John Callahan
Thanks for the update. I was curious about the status of QGIS 1.7. There may be others in my user case In my case, I've been a long-time (10 - 15 years) GIS user but have bene using FOSS/QGIS regularly for about 2-3 years now. For me, if the version of QGIS has a problem, I just get the la

Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-07 Thread .
On 6/7/2011 1:18 AM, maning sambale wrote: A gallery showing what you can do with Map Composer would be very helpful. Many users (like me) would often discover a new functionality if there are examples (which is why linifiniti blog is what I usually visit). On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Paolo

Missing features in print-composer, was: Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-07 Thread Andreas Neumann
Boris, These sound like reasonable requests and should be implementable. Of course someone has to do it or pay for the implementation - but I don't see them as overly complex. Also they don't seem more like convenience features than problems that prevent proper map layouts. Please report the

Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-07 Thread Borys Jurgiel
Dnia wtorek, 7 czerwca 2011 o 07:24:06 Paolo Cavallini napisał(a): > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 05:57:43 +0200, Andreas Neumann > > wrote: > > what features specifically in the print composer are missing? > > > > I often hear people complain about missing features in the print > > composer, but I think

Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-07 Thread Giovanni Manghi
> I have completed a major QGIS project (see Encyclopedic Map of Baghdad > at Amazon.com). can this be resumed in a case study for the qgis web site? cheers -- Giovanni -- ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/

Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-06 Thread maning sambale
A gallery showing what you can do with Map Composer would be very helpful. Many users (like me) would often discover a new functionality if there are examples (which is why linifiniti blog is what I usually visit). On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: >> I often hear people com

Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-06 Thread Paolo Cavallini
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 05:57:43 +0200, Andreas Neumann wrote: > what features specifically in the print composer are missing? > > I often hear people complain about missing features in the print > composer, but I think that at the current trunk version it is already > quite powerful and maybe the pe

Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-06 Thread Andreas Neumann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Thank you for your interesting report. Sounds like a lot of work - the digitizing! Interesting to hear that a rotated view would be useful for digitizing. What I would wonder: what features specifically in the print composer are missing? I ofte

Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-06 Thread .
On 6/6/2011 8:18 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Il 06/06/2011 15:15, . ha scritto: What major features remain to be finished? Major features are never finished, by definition ;) New ideas are coming regularly. What is needed now is, IMHO: - bigfixing - bugfixing ;) - automatic testing - polishing

Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-06 Thread .
On 6/6/2011 7:49 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Il 06/06/2011 14:08, Tim Sutton ha scritto: So while I would love to see LTS, no bugs etc., the project can't sustain it at the moment. Exactly: users, it's time for you all (or at least those who work with QGIS) to stand up and help the development

Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-06 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 06/06/2011 15:15, . ha scritto: > What major features remain to be finished? Major features are never finished, by definition ;) New ideas are coming regularly. What is needed now is, IMHO: - bigfixing - bugfixing ;) - automatic testing - polishing (symbology and other stuff) - infrastructure

Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-06 Thread .
On 6/6/2011 7:49 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Il 06/06/2011 14:08, Tim Sutton ha scritto: So while I would love to see LTS, no bugs etc., the project can't sustain it at the moment. Exactly: users, it's time for you all (or at least those who work with QGIS) to stand up and help the development

Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-06 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 06/06/2011 14:08, Tim Sutton ha scritto: > So while I would love to see LTS, no bugs etc., the project can't > sustain it at the moment. Exactly: users, it's time for you all (or at least those who work with QGIS) to stand up and help the development team finding new developers and maintainer

Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-06 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi Thomas On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Thomas Wahlmüller wrote: > Hi > > I think the problem arises because many people already used QGIS 1.7. > Now user have the choice to use 1.6 (missing new features, maybe needed) > or 1.8 (more bugs) (at least at windows). Maybe it could be useful to > sp

Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-06 Thread Thomas Wahlmüller
Hi I think the problem arises because many people already used QGIS 1.7. Now user have the choice to use 1.6 (missing new features, maybe needed) or 1.8 (more bugs) (at least at windows). Maybe it could be useful to split Development Branch into two parts. QGIS would be providing three Versions. U

Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-05 Thread Noli Sicad
Hi, I think it would be better to release QGIS 1.7 as RC (release candidate). QGIS 1.7RC for now, then it all the major bugs are fixed release QGIS 1.7. Beta is not really good when QGIS has releasing several version of QGIS. Beta is not a good word in my opinion. It denotes that the software is r

Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-05 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi We have had discussions like this in the past. Unfortunately the word 'beta' in software is so overused it has become largely meaningless. Google mail was in beta for many years and many people used it in a production environment in that time. Our standard policy with QGIS is 'Here is a current

Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-05 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 05/06/2011 01:06, Goyo ha scritto: > workflow. OTOH I also think many bugs in the linked report are not > really "must fix for release". Sounds reasonable. So please help us reclassifying these cases. Thanks. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc _

Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-04 Thread Goyo
2011/6/4 Agustin Lobo : > I'd like to bring up to the users list the thread on the release of > 1.7 that was raised by Paolo in the developers list: > http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/release-of-1-7-td6421690.html > > I take the liberty of including here the two most relevant messages > (in m

[Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

2011-06-04 Thread Agustin Lobo
I'd like to bring up to the users list the thread on the release of 1.7 that was raised by Paolo in the developers list: http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/release-of-1-7-td6421690.html I take the liberty of including here the two most relevant messages (in my opinion): Paolo Cavallini: "Hi a