[GIS] Rotating labels in QGIS 2.8.2

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I have a question concerning label placement in QGIS. I'd like to rotate every label by 180°. Therefore, I set the rotation value to 180 (I've tried different ones as well as different variable types) according to the description:

Current rotation settings

I also applied every combination of "Preserve data rotation values" (what does that actually mean?) checked/unchecked and Rendering->"Show upside-down labels" (each value). But all this seems not to have any effect on the labels. What am I missing?

Best Answer

For QGIS 2.8.2, it works fine. You can turn the labels upside-down:

Line layer without labels

To rotate labels by 180 degrees (or turn them upside-down), from the Rendering tab you can enable the option the Show upside-down labels option which would automatically rotate the labels. You don't need to define a value for 180 degrees:

Make labels upside down

Then that should do it. Remember that 6 and 9 will look like each other when upside down:

Upside-down labels

Hope this helps!

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