[GRASS-user] export as eps/svg ind grass64rc6 - grass7 ??

[Francesco Mirabella]

Hi,
sorry if I came back on this topic a bit late with respect to the 
messages below, but I think it's a quite crucial one and like to know if 
users/developers share similar needs.
I have just had to struggle with a arc* user for printing an map and to 
try to convince him/her to switch to GRASS....

I also recall some "dilemma" provocative messages in 2008 like:
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I come here with a question/dilemma...
Why ps.map lacks so much user support?
A lot of people know about GRASS all over the world, but nearly nobody
use it, since nearly any software in the world is less difficult to
produce maps.
GRASS is a wonderful tool for analysis, but it fails to produce the 
ultimate result: a map.
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The point is how one can produce an output map which contains at least:
1. a raster map
2. some vector with labels
3. scale

One should be able to decide about:
1. map scale,
2. paper format,
3. file format

I think that at the present development level, the user should be able 
to make such a map from the GUI. The output map vector elements should 
also be editable in skencil, inkscape, openoffice, etc.. with the raster 
as a base (e.g. a dem or a raster topography)

I am aware that the present-day wxpython map display allows to produce 
bitmaps (.png, .tif, etc..) and that the things in the list above can be 
drawn off ps.map - ps.output. However at present one has to load all the 
info into a "mapping instructions file" which has to be changed each 
time one wants to map a different map. In the oldtcltk this issue was 
overcome by the possibility to create the .txt script file directly from 
the tcltk display window.
I wonder if it is planned to create a sort of printing layout which can 
allow the user to easily output "a map".

many thanks in advance
Francesco


Hamish wrote:
> Achim wrote:
> 
>> I know that it is not possible in grass65,
> 
> no my friend, it is available:   d.out.file
> 
>    format   Graphics file format
>             options: png,ppm,tif,geotiff,jpg,bmp,ps,eps,svg,pdf
> 
> 
> And of course v.out.svg.
> 
> See d.mon for details on the Cairo and PS (PostScript) drivers
> which are another way to go.
> 
> and of course ps.map or ps.output PostScipt [-> PDF] -> Inkscape is
> great if you need print quality output.
> 
> 
>> but can one export the graphics display to svg or eps in grass7
>> (from gui-display)?
> 
> there is a save-as pull down menu in the map display. I can't remember
> what's on it except that GeoTiff is on the planned feature list.
> 
>> Alternatively I would like to load my workspace settings to
>> a xmon in order to export from there. Is that possible?
>> (I really dont want to rebuild the layer settings from the
>> shell again ;-) )
> 
> GRASS 7 doesn't have xmons, but the PS and Cairo drivers there are
> much better than in GRASS 6. (mostly the xmons hold them back in grass 6)
> 
> 
> good luck,
> Hamish
> 
> 
> 
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Geologia Strutturale e Geofisica
Universita' di Perugia,
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra,
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