[GRASS-dev] Re: gis.m: how to create high-resolution graphics file ?

[Moritz Lennert]

Michael Barton wrote:
> Moritz,
> 
> In terms of raster, you can only get what is in the display. That is, you
> can't get higher resolution than you can see. This is pretty good if you
> expand the display to your full screen, but it may not be enough for what
> you want I suppose.

No, even if I expand to full screen, the resolution is not print-ready 
in my eyes.

> 
> Under the print menubutton, you can export to eps. This is a high as it
> gets. There is text in eps format--so it will look very good--but vectors
> are still rendered on-screen as rasters. This is a function of the GRASS
> display libraries/functions. It would be nice to have vectors rendered as
> vector objects, of course, but this will take some rewriting. OTOH, this is
> the direction we are trying to take the GUI/display architecture.

Let's hope that Glynn gets around his "longer term" plans of migrating 
to D_* commands soon... ;-)

Moritz

> 
> Michael
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> 
>> From: Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be>
>> Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 22:54:46 +0200
>> To: Grass Developers List <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>, Michael Barton
>> <michael.barton at asu.edu>
>> Subject: gis.m: how to create high-resolution graphics file ?
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to export a high resolution jpeg or ppm from the map
>> display, but I just can't seem to find a way to do this. All I get are
>> fairly low resolution files. Have I missed something ? How can I
>> configure this (beyong chosing jpeg quality) ?
>>
>> The same goes for printing to eps or pdf.
>>
>> Moritz
> 
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