[GRASS5] xdriver use

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 05:08:56PM +0200, mlennert at club.worldonline.be wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> > 
> > > "x0", "x1", etc... are just "instances" of the XDRIVER.
> > > d.mon start=x[0-7] works the same as always.
> > 
> > Eric,
> > 
> >   Oh. OK, then.
> > 
> >   When might I want to use the CELL driver rather than the XDRIVER? I'm
> > trying to understand the intricacies both for myself and to explain it to my
> > clients when I train them on the spatial DSS I'm developing for them.
> 
> The CELL driver allows you to put many different map elements into one
> high resolution raster file that can then be exported into the known
> raster image formats. It is, therefore, essentially used for map creation.

Another comment: You will also like the PNGDriver which directly exports to
PNG format...

Markus