[udig-devel] Printing and MapGraphics

[Dane Springmeyer]

Jesse,

That's amazing. Thanks for your contributions and to the folks who  
contracted you: quite a contribution to the layout and map making  
options is sound like.

Cheers,

dane

On Feb 5, 2008, at 10:04 PM, Jesse Eichar wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've recently had a small contract to work on uDig.  Here's a list  
> of what has been done so far:
>
> Fixed a postgis bug that occurs when the Postgis Project is defined  
> wrong in the database
> Added an option to declare the outline color for polygons and lines  
> when creating a theme-based style
> Added the option to Add Map Graphic boxes in the Printer layout.
> Made Legend pay attention to the Location style
> Added a font style for Scalebar and Legend
> Made Boxes in the printer preview transparent
> Modified the default layout so that there is a legend and scalebar  
> by default
> Added the option to change the font of Labels and MapGraphics in  
> the Printing Page Layout
> Fixed the location style configurator which seemed to be broken
> Added an action to force a Printing Box to refresh
> Made the MapBox listen to more events in the map.  For example  
> changing the style will now trigger a refresh
> Added a Landscape Template
> Made the main label of the map Bold and larger by default
> Added a Set Scale action for the MapBox, so that the scale can be  
> set in the Page Layer editor
> Added double click actions to all boxes so that Double clicking on  
> a box will perform the "default" action as defined in the box  
> Extension XML
> When a Page Editor is selected the map's layers will be displaying  
> the layer's view and modifying the layers in the layers view will  
> be reflected in the MapBox.
> Made the default layouts more attractive
> Other little details that I can't think of now.
>
> We'll be releasing another RC14 test release tomorrow with these  
> changes in it.  I would appreciate feedback.
>
> Jesse
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