<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div id="yiv377602443"><table id="yiv377602443bodyDrftID" class="yiv377602443" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td id="yiv377602443drftMsgContent" style="font: inherit;"><br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 18/8/10, Ravi <i><ravivundavalli@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Ravi <ravivundavalli@yahoo.com><br>Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Opensource and pretty maps design anybody?<br>To: "Rich Shepard" <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com><br>Date: Wednesday, 18 August, 2010, 4:34 PM<br><br><div id="yiv377602443yiv1530824342"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font: inherit;" valign="top">I use <br>1. Create an .svg file from the shape file<br>2. Open .svg file in Inkscape, a wonderful software with
<br> RGB and CMYK colour palette, and also great text fonts and justification<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 17/8/10, Rich Shepard
<i><rshepard@appl-ecosys.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com><br>Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Opensource and pretty maps design anybody?<br>To: grass-user@lists.osgeo.org<br>Date: Tuesday, 17 August, 2010, 9:33 PM<br><br><div class="yiv377602443yiv1530824342plainMail">On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, kapo coulibaly wrote:<br><br>> I've been using opensource GIS for a while (GRASS a lot). But they are all<br>> very limited when it comes to creating nice maps. I always have to resolve<br>> to
using ArcGIS to put final touches on maps. Anybody has a suggestion for<br>> a free software to use for map design?<br><br> Sure: psmap within GRASS. Or you can use any of the graphic applications<br>such as the GIMP, dia, Inkscape, etc.<br><br> I've found that psmap produces outstanding output at a specified scale. It<br>takes a while to grok all the options and you need to build a text file to<br>produce what you want (no clicking, dragging, or other GUI stuff), but you<br>can put what you want exactly where you want it. I suppose you could also<br>use PSTricks with it but I've not looked at doing so.<br><br>Rich<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>grass-user mailing list<br><a rel="nofollow">grass-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
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