[GRASS-dev] my custom ps.map to ps3.map

[Markus Metz]

Joining the previous comments, I think too that this looks really great! 
I use ps.map regularly and was sometimes missing these features.

Sticking to grass command naming conventions, this enhanced version of 
ps.map may better be called ps.map2 and not ps3.map, unless there is new 
PostScript3 wizardry in there, not only new options.

In the current ps.map, the type of the colortable drawn for rasters is 
dependent on the type of the raster. CELL rasters get a discrete 
colortable with labelled categories, FCELL and DCELL maps get a color 
gradient. Sometimes a DEM is of type CELL, then I would like to have a 
colortable with gradient, not discrete categories. At least I would like 
to have the choice. I'm using my own hackish workaround, but maybe you 
could do that properly, leaving the defaults as they are now? Just a 
suggestion.

Regards,

Markus M


E. Jorge Tizado wrote:
> Hi Hamish,
>
> I make many changes to the files in ps.map and to avoid conflict with this 
> standard command I move my custom ps.map to ps3.map.
>
> This ps3.map compile whithout errors in grass6_devel (6.5.svn). Before I send 
> this addons (or substitute of ps.map) I want debug and improve some part of 
> code but I like know the opinion and suggestions to improve the command 
> needed to draw quality maps whitout any other extern software.
>
> The main improvements are:
>
> 1. All font has color.
> 2. All colors are R:G:B (accept named and none, of course).
> 3. Many dimensions accept unit (milimeters, centimeters and inches, default 
> points).
>
> - Grid: option of fcolor to look like as ps3_map_grid.jpg (with a border of 2 
> points)
> - Areas: it is possible define style of line to look as 'Geology-262' in 
> ps3_map_legend.jpg
> - Lines: it is possible define style to hline to look as 'Railroads' in 
> ps3_map_legend.jpg
> - Scalebar: now with fcolor to look as ps3_map_scalebar.jpg
>
> - rlegend and vlegend: with frame and multicolumns work well as 
> ps3_map_legend2.jpg
>
> ... and more.
>
> Also I send to Grass-Addons server (GRASS7 subdir) i.landsat.toar and 
> i.topo.corr; They compile without errors in GRASS7 but I can not test because 
> teh compilation of GRASS_7 give me errors in many files, mainly because:
>
> /usr/local/grass-6.4.0svn/lib/libgrass_I.so: undefined reference to `G_gets'
> /usr/local/grass-6.4.0svn/lib/libgrass_I.so: undefined reference to 
> `G_get_ask_return_msg'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> Thank for suggestions and comments
>
>