[GRASS5] ps.map symbol size from DB column

[Michael Barton]

Moritz and Hamish

A major objective of the changes to the GIS Manager I've been making are to
move all major display functions to GIS Manager layers with option panels.
This makes entering options easier. It also allows for much easier creation
of complex maps that can be modified and redisplayed. Importantly, it makes
it possible to save all types of display features as a groups, including
charts, thematic maps, grids, scales, frames, etc--as well as the normal
raster and vector maps. without having to create commands and save them in a
command layer.

One problem that has come up in this is that the print function as currently
implemented is limited to just doing basic raster and vector maps. I've put
stubs to all the new layers, but it will require someone with a much more
intimate knowledge of ps.map than I have to make it possible to directly
print a complex map made in this way through the current print dialog
(actually an interface to ps.map).

While I hope this can happen, I've also created a couple of alternative
solutions that might help in the meantime. One is a new script that will
save display monitor output to a larger variety of graphic formats (the
d.out.file script that I sent out for review a few days ago). Another is a
simple print menu item that will send the display of the active  display
monitor to the default printer via lpr.

I hope to get this done and posted for testing by early next week.

Michael
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Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-2402

phone: 480-965-6213
fax: 480-965-7671
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton



> From: Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be>
> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:12:43 +0200
> To: Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>
> Cc: <grass5 at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS5] ps.map symbol size from DB column
> 
> Also, what are the chances of having the print dialog in the GIS
> Manager actually print d.vect.chart results via ps.map ? If I
> understand correctly Michael is working on integrating d.vect.chart
> as a button. Does that mean that it can be saved as part of a group
> and then translated into a ps.map command ?
> 
> And (just to show how insatiable we are ;-): any chances of having
> the full d.vect.chart implement in ps.map, i.e. allowing pie/bar
> charts ? (I know I can create the charts outside as eps files and
> depict them. I have been doing this with GRASS5 and R. But having it
> all within GRASS would obviously make things easier.)