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And now… colour preview modes in QGIS’ map canvas

Posted on May 22, 20142 Comments

As a quick follow-up to my last post on colour preview modes for the print composer in QGIS 2.4, this feature has also been added to the main map canvas window! Now it’s even easier to adjust your symbol colours and immediately see how they’d appear under a range of different circumstances:

Colour blindness and grayscale previews in QGIS 2.4

Posted on May 19, 20146 Comments

Since QGIS 2.4 is nearing feature freeze it seems like a good time to start exploring some of the great new features in this release. So, let’s get started with my most recent addition to QGIS’ print composer… preview modes! As every first year cartography text book will tell you, it’s important to know your […]