<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Luigi,<br></div><div><br></div><div>ps.map (or g.gui.psmap/File > Cartographic Composer) is certainly an option. You can also have a look at m.printws in addons (mentioned in the ticket you linked), but it suffers from the same issues as the normal display since it is using d-commands.</div><div><br></div><div><div></div><div><a href="https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/manuals/addons/m.printws.html" target="_blank">https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/manuals/addons/m.printws.html</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>I have tried to put individual layers rendered as SVGs together manually. That was too difficult to match, but perhaps if you clip vectors to a computational region you can match those.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Just to be clear, are you saying the ps driver (with GRASS_RENDER_PS_TRAILER etc) didn't work for you? </div><div><br></div><div>Best,<br></div><div>Vaclav<br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 9:48 AM Luigi Ponti <<a href="mailto:luisponti@tiscali.it" target="_blank">luisponti@tiscali.it</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear list,</div><div><br></div><div>I am replying to myself just to say that I hit the same issues as shown at:</div><div><a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/3033" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/3033</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>My apologies for not checking that first.</div><div><br></div><div>As I keep running into this problem, but there is not a lot of discussion on it, probably people have found other ways to deal with it (e.g., ps.map, which what I will try next).</div><div><br></div><div>Also, I noticed that the Python way was also explored:</div><div><a href="https://discuss.wxpython.org/t/wx-image-postscript/25813" target="_blank">https://discuss.wxpython.org/t/wx-image-postscript/25813</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>which I was actually about to ask…</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Luigi</div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 12:34 PM Luigi Ponti <<a href="mailto:luisponti@tiscali.it" target="_blank">luisponti@tiscali.it</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>I am trying to get output image files in various formats using the Cairo driver, following some very useful Python scripting examples:</div><div><a href="https://baharmon.github.io/python-in-grass" target="_blank">https://baharmon.github.io/python-in-grass</a></div><div><br></div><div>When I try to map vector layers (e.g., point data) on top of raster layers (say a digital elevation model);</div><div><br></div><div>if I use PNG output file extension, both vector and raster layers show up with points having transparent background,</div><div><br></div><div>if I use PDF, PS, or SVG output file extension, only the vector layer (drawn last) is shown in the output image with white background.</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe the PS driver is a better option?</div><div><br></div><div>Yet, I was reading this old grass-dev post that may be relevant:</div><div><a href="https://marc.info/?l=grass-dev&m=146346954429631&w=2" target="_blank">https://marc.info/?l=grass-dev&m=146346954429631&w=2</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Luigi</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Sample test function I am using follows:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:23px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div><font face="monospace"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">def</span> make_map(outfile_name,</font></div><div><font face="monospace"> fig_width,</font></div><div><font face="monospace"> fig_height,</font></div><div><font face="monospace"> bg_color: Optional[str] = <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">None</span>,</font></div><div><font face="monospace"> file_types: Optional[list] = <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">None</span>):</font></div><div><font face="monospace"> <span style="color:rgb(163,21,21)">""" Test ouput map figure.</span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(163,21,21)"><font face="monospace"> PLEASE CHECK as PDF and PS output does not get vectors displayed on</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(163,21,21)"><font face="monospace"> top of rasters. """</font></span></div><div><font face="monospace"> background_color = bg_color <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">or</span> [NO_BG_COLOR]</font></div><div><font face="monospace"> extensions = [PNG] <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">if</span> file_types <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">is</span> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">None</span> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">else</span> file_types</font></div><div><font face="monospace"> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">for</span> extension <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">in</span> extensions:</font></div><div><font face="monospace"> outfile = pathlib.Path(OUT_DIR).joinpath(<span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">f</span><span style="color:rgb(163,21,21)">"</span>{outfile_name}<span style="color:rgb(163,21,21)">.</span>{extension}<span style="color:rgb(163,21,21)">"</span>)</font></div><div><font face="monospace"> grass.run_command(<span style="color:rgb(163,21,21)">"d.mon"</span>, overwrite=<span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">True</span>,</font></div><div><font face="monospace"> start=<span style="color:rgb(163,21,21)">"cairo"</span>,</font></div><div><font face="monospace"> width=fig_width,</font></div><div><font face="monospace"> height=fig_height,</font></div><div><font face="monospace"> bgcolor=background_color,</font></div><div><font face="monospace"> output=outfile)</font></div><div><font face="monospace"> grass.run_command(<span style="color:rgb(163,21,21)">"d.rast"</span>,</font></div><div><font face="monospace"> map=<span style="color:rgb(163,21,21)">"raster_layer"</span>)</font></div><div><font face="monospace"> grass.run_command(<span style="color:rgb(163,21,21)">"d.vect"</span>,</font></div><div><font face="monospace"> map=<span style="color:rgb(163,21,21)">"point_vector_layer"</span>,</font></div><div><font face="monospace"> type=<span style="color:rgb(163,21,21)">"point"</span>,</font></div><div><font face="monospace"> color=<span style="color:rgb(163,21,21)">"150:0:0"</span>,</font></div><div><font face="monospace"> size=<span style="color:rgb(9,134,88)">20</span>)</font></div><div><font face="monospace"> <span style="color:rgb(0,128,0)"># all other display commands</span></font></div><div><font face="monospace"> grass.run_command(<span style="color:rgb(163,21,21)">"d.mon"</span>, stop=<span style="color:rgb(163,21,21)">"cairo"</span>)</font></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Bundled GRASS app for Mac from here:</div><div><a href="http://grassmac.wikidot.com/downloads" target="_blank">http://grassmac.wikidot.com/downloads</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>System Info: <br></div><div><br></div><div>GRASS version: <a href="http://8.0.dev" target="_blank">8.0.dev</a> <br>Code revision: 32930185c <br>Build date: 2021-07-01 <br>Build platform: x86_64-apple-darwin20.5.0 <br>GDAL: 3.1.4 <br>PROJ: 7.1.1 <br>GEOS: 3.8.1 <br>SQLite: 3.35.4 <br>Python: 3.8.8 <br>wxPython: 4.1.1 <br>Platform: macOS-10.16-x86_64-i386-64bit <br></div><div><br></div><div>g.version -b<br>GRASS <a href="http://8.0.dev" target="_blank">8.0.dev</a> (2021)<br><br> ./configure --with-macosx-sdk=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.14.sdk --enable-64bit --with-macosx-archs=x86_64 --with-opengl=aqua --with-openmp --prefix=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources --with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/include/freetype2 --with-freetype-libs=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/lib --with-gdal=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gdal-config --with-gdal-libs=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/lib --with-proj=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/bin/proj --with-proj-includes=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/include --with-proj-libs=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/lib --with-proj-share=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/share/proj --with-geos=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/bin/geos-config --with-jpeg-includes=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/include --with-jpeg-libs=//Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/lib --with-png-includes=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/include --with-png-libs=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/lib --with-tiff-includes=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/include --with-tiff-libs=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/lib --with-postgres=yes --with-postgres-includes=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/include --with-postgres-libs=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/lib --without-mysql --with-sqlite --with-sqlite-libs=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/lib --with-sqlite-includes=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/include --with-fftw-includes=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/include --with-fftw-libs=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/lib --with-cxx --with-cairo --with-cairo-includes=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/include/cairo --with-cairo-libs=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/lib --with-cairo-ldflags=-lcairo --with-zstd --with-zstd-libs=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/lib --with-zstd-includes=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/include --with-bzlib --with-bzlib-libs=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/lib --with-bzlib-includes=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/include --with-netcdf=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/bin/nc-config --with-blas --with-blas-libs=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/lib --with-blas-includes=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/include --with-lapack --with-lapack-includes=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/include --with-lapack-libs=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/lib --with-netcdf=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/bin/nc-config --with-nls --with-libs=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/lib --with-includes=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/include --with-pdal=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/bin/pdal-config --with-pdal-libs=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/lib --with-readline --with-readline-includes=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/include/readline --with-readline-libs=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/lib --with-liblas=/Applications/GRASS-8.0.app/Contents/Resources/bin/liblas-config<br></div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Luigi Ponti<br><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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