[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASSLIST:10288] Re: ps.map resolution

[Glynn Clements]

Hamish wrote:

> > > Back in October there was a discussion of how ps.map had a hard
> > > coded  setting of 75DPI for its output, and a bit of a discussion of
> > > fixing that.
> > > 
> > > I just spent a bunch of time trying to make postscript map files of
> > > some fairly high-quality map scans, only to have them come out
> > > looking blotchy.   Only just now did I remember this discussion and
> > > look it up in my mail archives.
> > > 
> > > Has there been any more thought about how to do away with this
> > > hard-coded  limit in ps.map?  The temporary solution is to rebuild
> > > ps.map with a  different, higher hardcoded resolution, which is
> > > icky, to say the least (but  easy, and that's what I did).
> > 
> > Sorry, I didn't realise it was still there. The latest CVS version no
> > longer downsamples raster maps.
> 
> grass6/ps/ps.map/read_cfg.c  still has two "PS.res = 75;" statements.
> 
> Can these safely be removed?

Nothing appears to read PS.res, so it should be safe, although the
field should be removed altogether rather than left uninitialised.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>