Questions tagged [print-composer]
Print composer provides growing layout and printing capabilities in QGIS.
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Add a frame at a fixed position in multipage report
In QGIS 3.28 I'm trying to create a multi-page report with an attribute table frame on each page. The number of pages depends on the number of points, but each should contain 40 points with some other ...
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QGIS layout, print grid labels beside lines
I am using QGIS (v3.36.1) to make a map for planning purposes. For the layout, I am looking at a map made in some kind of CAD software. It has labels on the gridlines inside the border, which I can ...
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Scale bar is no longer linking to my map in 3.34.4 Prizren [closed]
I am using the latest stable version of QGIS 3.34.4 and the scale bar is no longer linking to my map? This was also the case for the north arrow, however when I redo the north arrow it links. However ...
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QGIS: Labeling text out side of map?
I have some grid lines which have attributes (map 1). Those attribute need to show outside of map area in layout section where arrow is (map 2). How to do that?
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Add attribute table in QGIS layout with more than one attribute table as source
I have two attribute tables
Table "monthly Inspection"
item
date
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2024-01-01
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2024-02-01
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2024-01-01
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2024-02-01
Table "yearly Inspection"
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2022-06-01
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QGIS Layout - Map Frame shows only white and is not accessible
I created a working atlas series in the print composer. After some time the map frame is all white and showing no map, even with disabling the atlas preview. It's impossible to access the map frame ...
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Print composer custom table with sums for groups
How do I build a result table within the print composer that aggreates the sums from an abundance field (integer) for the responding values?
Species
Abundance
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QGIS Print Layout scale incorrect w.r.t. physical paper size
I am making a 200x150 cm map of Berlin to be printed, but I'm having difficulties setting up the right scale in the Print Layout.
The map should cover roughly 30 km horizontally, which corresponds to ...
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geometry_generator not working properly in QGIS Print Composer
I'm working with QGIS 3.34 and trying so draw some lines with a given distance via the geometry_generator:
The Pagesize ist 297x1399 mm
I draw a shape (rectangle) with Length and Height via @...
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Update/refresh Table in QGIS-Layout
I have two tables in my layout. One is a Attribute table (of a polygon layer) the other one a table which shows the Sum of the first table multiply by 2.
While the attribute table is updated when ...
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Changing legend font in QGIS composition using PyQGIS
I'm working with PyQGIS and have a function that successfully adds a legend to a QGIS composition, including layers and their symbology. However, I'm struggling to figure out how to change the font of ...
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I can't seem to overlay maps with a transparent background in the map layout like I used to
I have a workspace that I created maybe a year ago that was an evolution of a workspace I've used since before version 3, where I have 3 maps elements in a layout stacked in an overlay (to keep them ...
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PyQGIS blocking in for statement
I have the following PyQGIS script that is a combination of personal edits and graphical modeler:
cities_layer = self.parameterAsVectorLayer(parameters, 'cities', context)
urban_area = self....
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PDF Export varies from display in layout view using QGIS
As in QGIS - Lines vary at a certain scale, the problem was solved in the map and layout view, but when I created a PDF, this happened:
As you can see, the edges in the layout view are as sharp as ...
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How to curve text in QGIS layouts
I am wondering if there is a way to curve text inserted as text boxes in QGIS print layout. I am familiar with how to curve layer labels. But in this case, I want to curve text that is not tied to any ...
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PyQGIS calculate the actual map dimensions on a dynamic layout
I'm writing a plugin to more easily create atlas coverage rectangles, which are to scale and can dynamically rotate from portrait to landscape orientation. I've also written in some code which can ...
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QGIS: freeze frames in print layout
I need to display two map frames (Geology and slope map) in one single print layout A3 format.
The problem is that, even if the lock button for Geology map frame is checked (Mappa 1), later, when I ...
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PyQGIS print map with different aspect ratios
I have multiple maps generated in a pyqgis script. Those maps I want to export them automatically with different aspect ratios in order to be printable on different canvases.
This is the list of ...
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How to adjust the digit size of my numeric scale in qgis print composer
In QGIS Print composer one can add a scale and switch from "simple frame" to "numeric frame" as shown in the following image.
How do I change the size of the shown digits? My aim ...
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Creating automatic page size from polygons
I am new to QGIS, so I will try my best to describe what I am trying to do.
I have a line feature, along which I have created an array of the same sized polygons/grey squares. I am trying to create a ...
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How to hide or remove the subgroup labels on a QgsLayoutItemLegend with PyQGIS?
I'm trying to build a layout with pyqgis and I'm not able to hide or remove the label from the caption subgroup as shown in the image below.
This is what I have until now:
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legend = ...
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QGIS: show attributes of different colums in legend
I'd need to classify and display on a map different land cover symbols by its Corine Land Cover codes, but in the meanwhile I'd like to show them in legend as symbol (based on UDSCOD) + code (UDSCOD) +...
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Labels automatically changing position from main view to Print Composer
I am working on a basic river map and when switching to the Print Composer, many of my labels are randomly moved. And not only they are changed on the default view on the Print Composer, but they keep ...
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In QGIS Layout "Export as image" predefined settings do not match Page Properties
When setting the Page properties in the Print Layout I expected that these properties are predefined when exporting this Layout as image. But either this seems not to be the case or I am missing ...
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Wrong Coordinates in QGIS Map Grid
These are incorrect decimal degree coordinates for Puerto Rico. Layers are suppossed to be georeferenced or is this common for layer not georeferenced?
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Extent of a group of lines in a polyline shapefile
QGIS, shapefiles
I have a map with a polyline layer representing streets of a village
I have a shapefile without geometry, with the lists of responsible peoples for streets, each of them is reponsible ...
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Print Layout - scale bar is correct - scale ratio not matching up
I have been asked to include a scale reference to my map of a property. The scale bar seems correct from a sense check but the scale is saying 1:500 which does not match. I would suggest it may be ...
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QGIS - atlas print composer how to display mutiple values when adding attribute table?
I have this attribute table. I locked my atlas generator by county. For each, I want the statistics of all the cities that are in each county. For example :
If the page of SICARIO is showed I want :
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QGIS - Atlas : how to filter the pages of the Atlas?
I generated an atlas with plots in it and I wonder if I can choose what pages I want to keep in my atlas, using the page's number.
I have this list for my page.
For example, for the abreviation "...
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Inserting a layout shape between maps in QGIS
At QGIS 3.34.1, I have created a layout with two maps superimposed over each other. I need to sandwich a rectangle (using Add Item > Add Shape > Add Rectangle) between the two maps.
When I ...
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QGIS - layout/ print composer and linking displayed maps
I wonder if it's possible to display a map in the layout/print composer when another is shown ?
I have this layer where I've made some statistics with diagrams. It shows the percent of people that are ...
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Delete lines on the right of and under the longitude and latitude lines. (0° and 90°) in QGIS print layout
I am using QGIS. I only want the grid lines that have the coordinates 0° and 90°, and therefore need to delete the vertical line on the right and the horizontal line at the bottom. In the grid section ...
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Symbology created with geometry generators renders murky in print legend
I have a style that makes use of the geometry generator for a wavy line:
the code is as follows, with units set to mm
wave($geometry,
6,
1.5)
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When I export the map as a vector format (...
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Make QGIS report use raster rather than vector images in its PDF export
QGIS reports appear to produce vector images for displayed maps when exporting to a PDF document. This is presumably an equivalent of exporting an atlas or single map to a PDF. This provides good ...
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Working with expressions inside variables in QGIS
This is a follow-up based on the question asked and answered here: (Using attributes tables as variables on QGIS),
I named all my layouts according to the "map_code" column + a short for the ...
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QGIS atlas feature: Storing information from coverage layer in an atlas variable
Using QGIS` atlas feature, how can I pass information from my coverage layer to the layer's rendering engine?
At the moment, I'm abusing the Page name in the Layout > Atlas tab like this:
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QGIS print layout: Dynamic text with attributes from different layers with different geometry
I have made a print layout containing a map and 2 different vector layers. 1 polygon and 1 point layer.
I have used til polygon layer to control my atlas function.
The polygons are fields and the ...
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Very slow rendering of text tables and maps in the print layout in new versions of QGIS
I'm using QGIS 3.34. In the print layout composer, text tables are very slow. When they have more than 100-200 lines, each movement through the layout takes 2-3 seconds (even if there are no maps ...
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QgsPrintLayout Scalebar does not update correctly
With Pyqgis, I am trying to automate the creation of layouts using a template.
I use QGIS v3.32.2-Lima with Python v3.9.5.
In the template, I have a map item and a scalebar item.
The scalebar item ...
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Make labels in the composer view exactly the same size as in layout view
I currently struggle to get the labels in the composer and the layout view to have the exact same size and beeing at the same position. I need to know that in order to manually place overlapping ...
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Dynamically filtering feature count in QGIS Atlas, Legend
I was struggling to filter the legend items ( feature count ) , based on the current feature layer. My atlas layer is a world map layer and the points layer ( that is in being counted in the legend )....
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How to automate the design and production of 5 thematic maps in a single layout in QGIS
I am currently working on a project to map cleanliness incidents in all 19 boroughs of the City of Montreal. I must represent 5 variables out of 7 of the top 5 cleanliness incidents reported by ...
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How to lock the size of the item properties panel in QGIS 3 print composer?
In QGIS 3 (currently running on QGIS 3.28.3 Firenze) the print composer typically contains panels to control aspects of composing (item properties, Atlas, Guides, etc.). . In my case these are ...
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Setting decimal places in coordinate-grid in QGIS Print Layout
I have a grid with coordinates on my map in the Print Layout of QGIS. But in one map I have decimal coordinates that look like this:
12.500°E / 52.300°N
And sometimes they look like this:
12°E / 52°...
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Write QgsPrintLayout content into docx file with pyqgis
I would like to know if it is possible to write a QgsPrintLayout object into a docx file, using PyQGIS. Initially, I was asked to write it in a PDF file, but now my client wants it in a docx file, so ...
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QGIS map composer remove red cross with condition
In the atlas composer, I'd like to be able to assess whether the path to the image is valid.
Something like, but I always have the "photo" attribute (an ID) filled in. I will check the path.
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Aligning scale of map in QGIS print layout to extent of region of interest
I am quite new to QGIS and have managed to create a raster map with some additional labels. But when I want to export the map with some additional text, using Print Layout, the map gets "scaled&...
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QGIS 3.28.11 problem with duplicates in atlas generator
In QGIS i have a shapefile with around 2000 polygon features. Attribute table has 3 columns: Field, Type and cover. Each polygon feature has a unique field number. There are 163 types. For each field, ...
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Changing color and font for cell in QgsLayoutItemTextTable object using PyQGIS
I am in the process of creating, with PyQGIS, a PDF file.
First I set up the following objects:
A value project = QgsProject.instance()
A layoutManager object "manager"
A QgsPrintLayout ...
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Print layout refuses to add map
I am new to GIS. Print layout refuses to add map. This happened after I was playing with some buttons. Scale is set at zero and resets to zero if I try to manually set scale. nb this is not referring ...
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