middle or end) of line labels corresponds to the anchor position
Previously labels would always be centered over the anchor position
of lines (unless it was a curved label, in which case it was the
start of the lable!) This is limiting (and inconsistent) for some
placements, where it is preferable to e.g. line up the end
of the label text with a specific point on the line
Allows text to be horizontally stretched or condensed by a %
factor. Handy for tweaking the widths of fonts to fit a bit
of extra text into labels (when used sparingly, that is...
you can certainly abuse font stretching with some horrendous
results!)
Requires Qt 6.3+ or KDE's 5.15 fork
Thanks for KDAB for fixing the upstream issues blocking this!
clipped before their anchor points are calculated
The previous behavior was to always use only the visible part
of the line when calculating the anchor point for labels. Now,
users have the option to choose "Use Entire Line" when setting
the label anchor point for lines, so that the entire line
feature is considered when calculating the point to place
the label instead of just the visible part of the line.
Sponsored by Stadt Zürich
polygons
Options are:
- 'yes': allow placing outside the polygon if needed
- 'no': don't allow outside placements
- 'force': only ever put this label outside the polygon
outside of polygon features when required
When a label can't be placed inside the polygon and this option is checked,
then it will be automatically placed at a nicely selected location
just outside of the polygon
Sponsored by QGIS Swiss user group!
of labels, min size for labels) to a new class QgsLabelThinningSettings
This new class is designed to contain settings related to how the label
engine removes candidate label positions and reduces the number of
displayed labels.
So that these files are all grouped together, making it easier to locate
all the components of the labeling engine and hopefully making things
easier to navigate
