[GRASS5] new scripts for GRASS 5.7 - png output

[Michael Barton]

Radim,

As I mentioned before, I wanted to try this and couldn't find it at 
first. After your message, I realized it was the nice printer button on 
the right (duh!)

Anyway I tried it. The interface is great. It appears that it requires 
Ghostscript. I have ghostscript, but had to get my path to its 
nonstandard location set (/sw/bin) before the print module would work. 
The ghostscript and (path adjustment if necessary) needs to be 
specified in the GRASS 5.7 requirements if it is going to be the 
standard way to do printing.

I ran into a couple of problems.

First, when I looked at previews, PDF's, and PNG's created, it only 
printed the vectors. The nice raster map under the vectors was ignored.

Second, when I actually tried to print to my printer (using the 
gimpprint/cups/ghostscript output), I got garbage. Perhaps I didn't 
specify it correctly. I left it at lpr thinking it would send to the 
default printer. It did print on my Epson inkjet, but, as I said, it 
was garbage.

Michael


On Monday, April 5, 2004, at 02:45  AM, Radim Blazek wrote:

>
> PNG may be also written from 'Print' dialog in d.m. It does not support
> all d.* commands because it uses ps.map, but supports line width.
>
> Radim
>
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