Re: [Qgis-user] Plea for help with monochrome maps for publication

Have a look at cpt city: http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/cpt-city/ While very much colour based, there is at least one grey scale palette. It does not support stipples or hatchings as far as I know.  It does support downloading palettes in native FOSS GIS formats such as GMT & QGIS. QGIS

Re: [Qgis-user] Plea for help with monochrome maps for publication

Have a look at http://colorbrewer2.org There you can check for grey-scale tones that are distinguishable and printer friendly, so you can set up a palette with those values. The downside of grey scales is, that there are not so many different tones available as when working with colours.

Re: [Qgis-user] Plea for help with monochrome maps for publication

Also, don't forget the QGIS preview functionality. It's available in the composer and in map canvas.This allows the user to simulate grayscale and monochrome printing. A sex, 11/11/2016, 18:49, Nicolas Cadieux escreveu: > Hi, > There is no easy way. The colours on

Re: [Qgis-user] Plea for help with monochrome maps for publication

Hi, There is no easy way. The colours on the screen will never be as the colours on print even with a screen calibration (but it would help if you can calibrate the screen with the printer). I normally deal with the publisher or the printer directly. You can ask for a recommended colour

[Qgis-user] Plea for help with monochrome maps for publication

Most of us prepare our maps using colours for different outlines or different colour shades of fill for polygons. However, there are still occasions where maps produced for publication in books or magazines will end up as shades of grey to save the cost of colour printing. This is certainly the