Feature request #3797

Specify joint style for Simple Markers

Added by Alister Hood almost 13 years ago. Updated almost 8 years ago.

Status:Closed
Priority:Normal
Assignee:-
Category:Symbology
Pull Request or Patch supplied:No Resolution:
Easy fix?:No Copied to github as #:13855

Description

Simple symbols for point layers have bevelled joints. Why would anyone want bevelled joints? :)
Ideally it would be possible to specify the joint style.

N.B. Because the border thickness cannot be specified (#3458) this means that when a composer layout is exported to svg, small square symbols turn into octagons!

N.B. in printouts the bevel is not visible (at least on Windows) because all borders are printed as a very thin black line (see #3778).

I'm marking this as minor and an enhancement, because that's what it is. The real problems are caused by the other two bugs :)

bevel.png (29 KB) Alister Hood, 2011-05-04 01:13 AM

marker-join-style.png (6.73 KB) Mathieu Pellerin - nIRV, 2014-12-23 08:04 PM

Associated revisions

Revision 6ad35374
Added by Mathieu Pellerin - nIRV almost 8 years ago

[FEATURE] add outline join style settings to simple markers
(fixes #3797)

Revision ae9d0891
Added by Nyall Dawson almost 8 years ago

Merge pull request #2964 from nirvn/simple_marker_join_style

[FEATURE] add outline join style settings to simple markers (fixes #3797)

History

#1 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 12 years ago

  • Target version changed from Version 1.7.0 to Version 1.7.4

#2 Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 12 years ago

  • Target version changed from Version 1.7.4 to Version 2.0.0

#3 Updated by Pirmin Kalberer over 11 years ago

  • Target version changed from Version 2.0.0 to Future Release - Nice to have

#4 Updated by Mathieu Pellerin - nIRV about 9 years ago

  • OS version deleted (XP)
  • Operating System deleted (Windows)
  • Assignee deleted (nobody -)
  • File marker-join-style.png added
  • Priority changed from Low to Normal
  • Pull Request or Patch supplied set to No
  • Status info deleted (0)

In recent versions, QGIS has gotten real good at offering the user to modify the join style throughout symbology and composer items. Yet, the simple marker hasn't (yet) been given that specific attention.

Could we try and fulfill this basic feature request by 2.8? I'm attaching a simple symbology case that clearly shows why bevel joins aren't good for all scenarios.

Glad I'm not the first one to ask this. :)

#5 Updated by Nyall Dawson almost 8 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Closed

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