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I have downloaded QGIS dev version 1.7.0-114 and I have come across some weird behaviour in the composer.

I create a map with a hillshade and a transparent DEM ontop of it, pretty standard stuff. When I export this map to an image format I get two strips across my output, this happens for a number of formats (png, jpg, bmp, tiff) and the stripes seem to be in the same place everytime. I have attached an example below (sorry for the size of the attachment).

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The stripes appear in the same position on the page every time and this happens with different raster datasets, so I have ruled out the data.

Also depending on the page size you may get 1 stripe (A5 as shown above), 2 stripes (A4) or no strips (custom dimensions h100 x w100).

Is this something that can be overcome via some settings which I may have overlooked? Or might this be something funny in the software?

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  • not a QGIS guy but at a first glance this appears to be a video card/driver issue. does this happen on a different computer? update drivers and try again, just a thought. (have similar issues with exporting to image in other software and it is video card related) Apr 15, 2011 at 1:46
  • hmmm that is strange. I have never seen that happen before. I'll try and replicate on my machine.
    – Nathan W
    Apr 15, 2011 at 2:40
  • Thanks Nathan, let me know how you go. I went home at lunch time and tried on my lappie (running Ubunutu 10.10) and it worked fine. Wonder if its the video card related like Jakub mentioned or a Windows related?
    – Ando
    Apr 15, 2011 at 2:58
  • Should be fixed in next release or go to trunk - hub.qgis.org/issues/5133
    – Willy
    Aug 20, 2012 at 10:40

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This same question came across the QGIS user email list last week. http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/2011-April/011691.html

Any idea, why a narrow band appears after saving/exporting from print composer?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/61556126@N07/5602729271/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/61556126@N07/5602729269/

it was logged about a month ago @ http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/3640

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  • Thanks Ryan. I wonder why this isn't happening on my Ubuntu install? I have only experienced this on my work machine which runs windows 7.
    – Ando
    Apr 15, 2011 at 9:21

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