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QGIS - Exporting a raster layer without smearing individual rasters (so you can zoom)

Geographic Information Systems Asked by Timo on January 15, 2021

I’ve been working with a raster map in QGIS (a shape file made up from squares) and now I’m trying to export it. I want to create an overview map for Germany that allows some magnification to look at individual rasters of 1km². My problem is that QGIS is sort of smearing the individual squares, smoothing the edges.

"Smoothed Raster edges"

It also looks like this after exporting it even on 1200 DPI. If I set the scale of the map to a very small scale this doesn’t occur, but obviously I don’t want it to occur at all.

How can this be done?

Edit: Export Settings:
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I’ve reset it down to see if that changes anything, but it also happens on 3k DPI.

Edit2: This is how it looks in a pdf:
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As you can see now we have sharp edges (still no squares) and the squares are also missaligned.

One Answer

Alright, found the solution. We needed to increase the size of the print page in the print-composer. When we changed the size from A4 to A0 we got rid of the weird pixellated shapes.

The resulting picture is insanely large as a png, but as a pdf we got something like 4.5mb which is acceptable enough.

Answered by Timo on January 15, 2021

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