Hi Alex,Fischer Thanks to both of you for your replies. So I understand that only SVG files are accepted by QGIS as symbols. Then I have to convert jpg,bmp etc into svg. Do I have to use Inkscape i.e http://www.inkscape.org/ for the conversion.
Warm Regards. Jürgen E. Fischer wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > On Fri, 09. Oct 2009 at 07:44:43 -0700, Alex Mandel wrote: >> In the QGIS installation folder there's a subfolder called svg. Any svg >> files you place in there will be picked up the next time QGIS is started >> and show up in the symbol picker. > > There's even a context menu in the symbol picker that allows a rescan > without > restarting. > > > Jürgen > > -- > Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. > +49-4931-918175-20 > Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. > +49-4931-918175-50 > Software Engineer D-26506 Norden > http://www.norbit.de > > -- > norBIT Gesellschaft fuer Unternehmensberatung und Informationssysteme mbH > Rheinstrasse 13, 26506 Norden > GF: Jelto Buurman, HR: Amtsgericht Emden, HRB 5502 > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/inserting-symbols-into-qgis-tp3787600p3831059.html Sent from the qgis-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user