7.2.5 QGis Plugin critycal issues fixed
7.2.4 The compass rose and the scale bar are half the previous size.
Coordinate labels no longer sit on the trim: the sheet was saved with
zero padding, so the leftmost labels touched the edge; a small uniform
margin has been added. The border of a nodata area now counts as an
artificial edge just like the sheet frame, so no coastal vignette is
drawn along it (most visible in the nodata 'Sea' mode).
7.2.3 Fixed the 7.2.2 speed regression: the coastal vignette took
hours. The shore buffer was recomputed inside the loop over rings
(1032 calls at ~15 s each on a sea polygon with 346 islands); the
selection now subtracts a buffer of the frame, computed once per call.
The vignette with islands is three times faster than it used to be
without them. Islands smaller than two vignette steps take no part in
the band -- this affects neither the fill nor the islands themselves.
7.2.2 Islands no longer sink: extracting polygon layers (seas, lakes,
marshes, ice, land cover, settlement polygons) now preserves interior
rings. They used to be dropped, so a sea polygon flooded the skerries
and looked displaced against the relief. Patterns respect holes too:
lake hatching and marsh tufts stay off the islands, and the coastal
vignette follows their shores. New parameter "Areas without data
(nodata) shown as": plain (as before), sea, or clean paper -- nodata
used to be filled silently with the nearest elevations and rendered as
a phantom plain.
7.2.1 The top sheet frame no longer sits on top of the mountains:
horizontal frame lines, map-border checkers and graticule ticks with
their labels are now broken along the relief silhouette wherever
oblique displacement pushes terrain past the top edge of the sheet.
Side and bottom edges are unchanged.
7.2.0 Relative scene scale: an optional mode where the oblique
displacement is normalized to the scene (p99 stretched to a target
percentage of the sheet height) and the contour interval comes from a
number of elevation belts instead of absolute meters -- gentle scenes
such as low hills or steep but low coastal cliffs now render with full
line work. A separate optional flag normalizes slopes by scene
percentiles instead of fixed 4/45 degrees. Both are off by default;
Hammond classification is unaffected. In strip mode the coefficients
are computed once on the downsampled pass and shared by all strips, so
seams stay consistent.
7.1.0 Sheet decoration: frames (single, double, thick-thin, checkered
map border with degree fractions), graticule ticks with D°MM' labels
(any CRS via WGS84), old-style scale bar, compass rose / north arrow
honoring true north on any projection and rotated canvas. Old-print
emulation: dot screen, paper grain, R/B misregistration (PNG).
Large-form shading: two-tone lithographic shadow spot or XIX-century
anaglyptography engraving (mutually exclusive). UI reorganization:
paper/fill/thematic reduced to three fields, all vector layers grouped
together. English release.
7.0.0 Vector export (SVG/PDF): choose the output format for a clean
print sheet or editing in vector software (raster fill embedded).
Strip tiling of the classic mode for huge sheets without memory
overflow. All of v5-v6: canvas rotation (0/90/180/270°), paper/ink
presets (sepia, blueprint, cyanotype, old map, white, diazotype),
optional stroke width jitter, auto-sea from the DEM with island holes
preserved, hydrography patterns and land cover textures, Hammond A-D
landform modes.
4.0.0 Full rework: two algorithms (landform + classic hachures) on a
shared core. Hypsometric fill from elevation (Patterson, Bartholomew,
Peucker, Imhof) with manual min/max override and optional percentile
stretch. Thematic fill takes colors from the QGIS layer style (no
rendering). Fill draped over the displaced relief. Automatic
background theme: monochrome water on sepia, blue on fills. Separate
water layers (rivers, lakes, seas, marshes), roads, settlements.
Layers clipped to the DEM extent. Memory control in classic mode. PNG
output.
3.1.0 Hybrid hachures (classic + Mower), landform classification,
fills, decoration layers.