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I have installed on my Mac OSX 10.9.5 the version QGIS 2.4.

My problem is that I cannot export any OpenStreetMap with the Composer and I do not understand why. The thing is that I imported the OSM map with the OpenLayers plugin... everything normal, OK. Then I started to edit some vectors... and then I tried to export the map with the Composer... but it just does not work! I can load everything there, but when I press the export buttons, then the window becomes blank. And it creates a new .pdf for example but with 0 bytes...

Does anyone have an idea about what I did wrong, or what is wrong? I may have missed some key details that I did not know that should be done...but still...Is there any chance to have the background of the OSM map exported somehow like .pdf? What I can do?

Or better, another question, is it even possible to export the OSM imported with OpenLayers Plugin with the Composer?... or I should download the data on my computer first?

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  • I don't encourage you to download the data yourself. Styling in QGIS is a very time-consuming work, and the project gets slow on every zoom if you have a larger area. It's the benefit of prerendered tiles that you have fast access to the map background. If you just need some special POI's from OSM, downloading is ok.
    – AndreJ
    Commented Jan 19, 2017 at 17:45

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Don't use the OpenLayers plugin if you want to print. It does not work, see: Why do OpenLayers plugin layers appear shifted in QGIS print composer?

Use QuickMapServices plugin instead or download the data - but then you have to style it yourself, see: https://gis.stackexchange.com/a/101746/187

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