[GRASS5] i.composite problems verified

[Eric G. Miller]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 03:58:49AM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> I've also added "r.out.ppm3", which creates a PPM image from red,
> green and blue map layers.
> 
> The main components which are still missing[1] are RGB versions of the
> "raster" command for p.map and ps.map. I'll look into ps.map next.
> 
> The paint system seems to only support paletted raster data, and only
> 256 colours at that. Is it still in widespread use? There aren't many
> drivers (13, or 9 if you exclude NULL, ppm, preview and preview2).
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to scrap "paint" and just point people at
> Ghostscript? Any updates to the paint architecture would presumably
> require developers who have access to the technical specs of all of
> these printers (or, at least, all of the ones which would still work
> after an interface change).

I'd vote for scrapping the "paint" routines and putting efforts into
ps.map.  But maybe it'd be good to poll the user community first...

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2 at jps.net>

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