Always rasterise point cloud layers when exporting maps

There's no situation in which we'd realistically want to export point cloud points as vector objects in a PDF -- that would result in a massive, unusable PDF/SVG!
qgis · Nov 16, 2020 · 168c024 · 168c024
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diff --git a/src/core/qgsmaprendererjob.cpp b/src/core/qgsmaprendererjob.cpp
@@ -955,8 +955,12 @@ bool QgsMapRendererJob::needTemporaryImage( QgsMapLayer *ml )
       break;
     }
 
-    case QgsMapLayerType::MeshLayer:
     case QgsMapLayerType::PointCloudLayer:
+      // point cloud layers should always be rasterised -- we don't want to export points as vectors
+      // to formats like PDF!
+      return true;
+
+    case QgsMapLayerType::MeshLayer:
     case QgsMapLayerType::VectorTileLayer:
     case QgsMapLayerType::PluginLayer:
     case QgsMapLayerType::AnnotationLayer: