[GRASS-dev] discussion: replacing ps.map

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Friday 06 April 2007 09:26, Glynn Clements wrote:
> If you're getting monochrome output, use:
>
>         export GRASS_TRUECOLOR=TRUE
>
> to get colour PostScript.
>
> I made monochrome the default because that results in the most
> portable code (a minimal level 1 PostScript implementation doesn't
> support colour).

Great! I just tried this with excellent results. Perhaps the longer rendering 
time for the PS driver is that it is rendering the raster data at the highest 
possible resolution. The output from a simple d.rast + d.vect is comparable 
to the quality of GMT-produced output.

Cheers,

-- 
Dylan Beaudette
Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
University of California at Davis
530.754.7341