[GRASS-dev] ps.map consolidation

[Jachym Cepicky]

hi,

>
> some ideas here:
> http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_GUI#Cartography:_GUI_front_end_for_ps.map
>
>
> My idea was to combine both ways, sort of like how QGIS is organized.
> blank preview page on the right side of the GUI (portrait or landscape)
> with solid black border for map box and colored dashed lines for the
> different text/legend boxes. To begin with have those drawn from map
> control placement settings, but in future you could drag those around
> to update the instructions settings (adjust box of currently selected
> instruction for overlap-proofing). In the far-future you would see low
> res preview instead of just rectangles.

I see the problem in "guessing" the box sizes. e.g. you can place the
legend box somewhere on the paper, but you can not tell, how wide and
height the box will be. That is, why I was proposing to find a
sollution, that each object of the map would be stored in separate
layer, so it could be regenerated ones the user changes some
properity.

I did something, what you are proposing allready, some months ago:
http://wwwold.fle.czu.cz/~jachym/img/grass/gpsmap-0.1.2.png but as I
said, it was hard to determine the box dimensions..

I like the rest, you are writing, nice concept. Only the list of
layers should be taken from current map display

jachym

>
> On the left 1/4 of the GUI would be an expandable map control
> tree with a few permanent entries (paper, scale, maploc).
> They might start with a "default" tick box selected [which would skip
> the instruction on output])
>
> [-] paper
>     type _____A4_[V]
>              letter
>              custom
>                 ...
>  [ungreyed for custom]
>     units ___inch_[V]
>         Page Size
>     height ______
>     width _______
>       Margin Size
>     top _________
>     bottom ______
>     left ________
>     right _______
> [+] scale
> [+] maploc
>
> then icons along the top for:  (keep it simple, ~8 is enough)
>
> # rast
> # vects (areas, lines, points)
> # grids
> # scalebar
> # mapinfo
> # text labels
>
> When you click on an icon, a new "[+] raster map" gets added to
> the list, then as above. Right-click to select remove instruction.
> Some of those (rast, grid) need logic so you can only add them once.
> Then in a main window pulldown menu have all the mapping instructions,
> including the lesser used ones.
>
> Save As... would take the current tree settings and write a ps.map
> instructions file.
>
> In the top-left "File" menu have (greyed-out in prototype) Load command
> file, then these (working in prototype) output menu entries:
>  * Save instructions file, Save As...  [a ps.map file]
>  * Save as PostScript file [run ps.map]
>  * Save as PDF File (pstopdf? ps2pdf? GNU Ghostscript?)
>      [run ps.map, work on PostScript tmp file]
>  * Print [run ps.map, lpr PostScript tmp file]
>
> And of course a Help menu with "g.manual ps.gui", "g.manual ps.map",
> "About GUI", "About ps.map", "About GRASS".
>
>
> how does that sound?
>
> Hamish
>


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