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How to generate labeling layer ?

Régis Haubourg edited this page Feb 4, 2014 · 8 revisions

Warning: manual Labeling should only be used after having tested all automated labeling placement options. QGIS 2 now offers advanced capacities to compute the best placement and even can tune all labels options with fields or expression.

Manual labeling should only be used for fixed scale use cases, since labels are "pinned" to a definite place, probably sub optimal when zooming in/out and when adding other labeled layers.


  1. Open some vector data layers you want to label