[Qgis-developer] New labeling engine: problems

2011-12-15 Thread luca_manganelli
Hi, I have encountered problems with the new labelling engine. I have a cadastral layer and I set labels over centroid, but the new labeling engine moves them very away from the centroid. See this attachment: http://hub.qgis.org/attachments/4116/label-bug.jpeg If I use the old engine, it

Re: [Qgis-developer] New Labeling

2011-09-14 Thread Andrew Chapman
-developer] New Labeling: To: qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org Message-ID: 4e6fb168.9060...@carto.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi Andrew, The logic is that one often wants label positions separate from the actual geometry. The new label tool allows x/y positions not only for point

[Qgis-developer] New Labeling:

2011-09-13 Thread Andrew Chapman
I'm trying to find a way to use data defined positioning with the new labelling to replicate what is possible in the old labelling, namely aligning and rotating about the point specified for a layer. With the new labelling, fields have to be selected for label distance X Y coordinates before the

Re: [Qgis-developer] New Labeling:

2011-09-13 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Andrew, The logic is that one often wants label positions separate from the actual geometry. The new label tool allows x/y positions not only for point geometries (where one can use the point geometry), but also for line and area features. If x/y columns are empty, QGIS uses the featurue