[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASSLIST:10288] Re: ps.map resolution

[Hamish]

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 05:06:20 +0000
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
> Tom Russo wrote:
>
> > Back in October there was a discussion of how ps.map had a hard
> > coded  setting of 75DPI for its output, and a bit of a discussion of
> > fixing that.
> > 
> > I just spent a bunch of time trying to make postscript map files of
> > some fairly high-quality map scans, only to have them come out
> > looking blotchy.   Only just now did I remember this discussion and
> > look it up in my mail archives.
> > 
> > Has there been any more thought about how to do away with this
> > hard-coded  limit in ps.map?  The temporary solution is to rebuild
> > ps.map with a  different, higher hardcoded resolution, which is
> > icky, to say the least (but  easy, and that's what I did).
> 
> Sorry, I didn't realise it was still there. The latest CVS version no
> longer downsamples raster maps.


grass6/ps/ps.map/read_cfg.c  still has two "PS.res = 75;" statements.

Can these safely be removed?


Hamish