[GRASSLIST:10239] Re: Labels and ps.map

[Nick Cahill]

Dear Glynn,

Thanks for your thoughts. I looked into it a bit more, and finally  
figured out what was wrong. I had a list of 78 sites with name,  
latitude and longitude. One site name had an open parenthesis but no  
close parenthesis. Something about this caused a postscript error  
when I added labels in ps.map. Ps.map ran fine, but Adobe Illustrator  
gave a message "The operation cannot complete because of an unknown  
error." When I removed the open parenthesis, it worked fine. I'm not  
sure whether this counts as a bug or not, but it's certainly  
unexpected behavior.

Thanks,

Nick Cahill



On Feb 9, 2006, at 12:48 PM, Glynn Clements wrote:

>
> Nick Cahill wrote:
>
>> Ps.map works fine for me until I add a label to the map; then
>> although the file is written OK, it cannot be opened - it gives a
>> parsing error in Adobe Illustrator or any other program I use to open
>> it. If I leave the label command out of the ps.map command file, it
>> works fine, so the problem is there. I vaguely recall a thread about
>> this but can't track it down. I've tried 6.0 and last  cvs on Mac OSX
>> 10.4.3. Any thoughts?
>
> 1. What error message are you getting?
>
> 2. Can you provide a small PostScript file which demonstrates the
> problem? Or, alternatively, a ps.map script which works in one of the
> sample locations (e.g. Spearfish)?
>
> -- 
> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
>