Copy and paste in the composer should remember position

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Author Name: Olivier Dalang (@olivierdalang)
Original Redmine Issue: 7234

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Hi !

Wouldn't it be nice if copy/pasted elements in the composer would also copy the position ? This way, after carefully position your items, you could simply copy/paste them from one composition to another.

It would be great if the position would be relative to the page (maybe using the page which is the nearest from the cursor?), so you could also copy/paste across pages in the same composer.

In some software, there are two distinct actions : "paste" and "paste in place", since sometimes you don't want to paste items in the exact same place. It could be done also in QGis if we think that providing "paste in place" as only place method isn't enough (IMO only one paste method is better).

Right now, copying and pasting makes a big mess regarding to item positions as soon as you copy/paste more than one item at a time.

Thanks !!

Olivier

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Author Name: Olivier Dalang (@olivierdalang)

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I made a pull request for this :

#441

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Author Name: Antonio Locandro (Antonio Locandro)

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That is a neat feature, maybe something like Inkscape does would be great if you can have also the keyboard shortcuts.

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Author Name: Alessandro Ciali (Alessandro Ciali)

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The actual master update has 2 option to past object previously copyed in layout:

ctrl+v paste object regardless original position

ctrl+shift+v paste object in the original position, in the same layout or in other layout. I verified that this option works fine with multiple selection too.

I tested on win7 64bit and 9afe76d release.

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Author Name: Antonio Locandro (Antonio Locandro)

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Confirmed, using Windows 7 on masters nightly build

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Author Name: Nyall Dawson (@nyalldawson)

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Paste in Place has been in master for some time now - I think it's safe to close this request.

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• resolution was changed from to fixed/implemented
• status_id was changed from Open to Closed