Hi Tim I don't know if it answers all your needs (haven't played with it yet, myself) but you may give a look to the layout reporting framework. See https://north-road.com/2018/01/23/exploring-reports-in-qgis-3-0-the-ultimate-guide
Regards, HarrissouLe 18 mai 2018 9:03 AM, Tim Sutton <t...@kartoza.com> a écrit : > > Hi All (mainly Nyall I guess) > > I have been playing with atlas in QGIS 3 to make a book prototype for a map > series. In the past when I used atlas, it was just to share as a PDF or > manually print out a map series. Now I want to prepare something to send to a > printer and I realise the requirements are a little different: > > * have a page for the cover outside on the left side, back cover outside on > the right > * a page with front cover inside on the left and the right > * have one or more ‘front matter pages’ with a matching back matter page for > each > * have the map series with each page having TWO maps from the map series. For > example the first page would have on the left Page 1 and on the right Page 30 > (where we have a 30 area series in atlas for example). Then the next page > would have two map items : Page 2 on the left, Page 29 on the right and so on. > > So I can manage a lot of this workflow by e.g. using separate composer > layouts for the front / back matter stuff. What I haven’t thought of a way to > do is having two atlas pages on the same layout. Basically what is needed is > the ability to trigger successive increments in the atlas counter if there > are two maps (and other elements such as tables) that are controlled by atlas > on the same layout. > > This is probably better explained by my diagram below: > > > https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/178003/40220376-34c77d00-5a79-11e8-9c09-b1b338915de5.png > > > So my questions are : > > 1) Has anyone dealt with this and if so, how did you solve it? > 2) How much work would it be to enable support for this kind of work flow? > 3) Are there any plans to have ‘print once’ pages in composer so that in a > layout I could have pages for front matter in ‘print once’ mode, one or more > atlas driven pages that will repeat for each atlas area, pages for back > matter in 'print once’ mode. > > Basically if we had this I could make a single print-ready PDF from one > layout. > > Thanks! > > Regards > > Tim > > > > > > > — > > > > > > > > Tim Sutton > > Co-founder: Kartoza > Ex Project chair: QGIS.org > > Visit http://kartoza.com to find out about open source: > > Desktop GIS programming services > Geospatial web development > GIS Training > Consulting Services > > Skype: timlinux > IRC: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net > _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
