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<BR>Good questioning. <BR>
My solution is that I use Qgis with PDF output to produce the ilustration part of the map and them make the final product with all the legend and titles with Scribus.<BR>
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<BR>Pablo Torres Carreira<BR>INCRA/Araraquara - Brazil.<BR>
<BR><BR>> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 20:17:18 +0200<BR>> From: chris.for.lists@googlemail.com<BR>> To: grass-user@lists.osgeo.org<BR>> Subject: [GRASS-user] ps.map dilemma<BR>> <BR>> Hi all,<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> I come here with a question/dilemma...<BR>> <BR>> Why ps.map lacks so much user support?<BR>> <BR>> A lot of people know about GRASS all over the world, but nearly nobody<BR>> use it, since nearly any software in the world is less difficult to<BR>> produce maps.<BR>> <BR>> GRASS is a wonderful tool for analysis, but it fails to produce the<BR>> ultimate result: a map.<BR>> <BR>> Even GMT is widely used, because a lot of people SHARE the scripts,<BR>> and there is the "GMT cookbook" on the official website.<BR>> <BR>> But for GRASS everybody can see some good examples here:<BR>> <BR>> http://grass.itc.it/screenshots/cartography.php<BR>> <BR>> But nearly nobody share the scripts to make these wonderful maps...<BR>> and you know, a lot of people will never "lose" their time trying to<BR>> figure out how ps.map works just using the man page.<BR>> <BR>> Ps.map also needs a "cookbook" in the future.<BR>> <BR>> And at: http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Ps.map_scripts<BR>> <BR>> Ok, we have finally a few scripts, but poorly documented.<BR>> <BR>> I use GRASS since 2001, it is nearly a complete solution for GIS (in<BR>> my opinion), but ps.map was always the weak point (in my opinion<BR>> too)... normally I need to export all my region/data to<BR>> GMT/ArcView/Surfer to make the final map.<BR>> <BR>> For example, my latest work was two pages for an atlas for National<BR>> Geographic Brasil/Brazil, with a work that I started developing with<BR>> GRASS since 2001... but guess if GRASS was used for the final map?<BR>> <BR>> This is a shame for me. :-(<BR>> <BR>> I am aware of g-ps.map (the alternate GUI for ps.map), but will take<BR>> sometime until it became truth.<BR>> <BR>> So... If there someone who wants to share his knowlegde, I can at<BR>> least help to compile and document the material to prepare a real<BR>> "ps.map cookbook" on the GRASS-Wiki.<BR>> <BR>> Who will join me, and share some material?<BR>> <BR>> Best regards,<BR>> Christian<BR>> <BR>> --<BR>> Christian dos Santos Ferreira<BR>> Oceanographer<BR>> Coordinator of Poseidon Linux<BR>> QGIS translator (EN to Brazilian Portuguese)<BR>> GRASS user since 2001 and "philosopher" for features ;-)<BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> grass-user mailing list<BR>> grass-user@lists.osgeo.org<BR>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user<BR><BR><br /><hr />Receba GRÁTIS as mensagens do Messenger no seu celular quando você estiver offline. Conheça o MSN Mobile! <a href='http://mobile.live.com/signup/signup2.aspx?lc=pt-br' target='_new'>Crie já o seu!</a></body>
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