Bounced but once again

W. Fredrick Limp fred at kirk.uark.edu
Mon Nov 16 16:46:04 EST 1992


This message bounced around for two days to max (not moon....)
its almost moot w/ message from Scott but anyway....
> 
> I'm not sure we shouldn't go private here but since I've already
> confused everybody .. well the correction should be posted.
> 
> I'n the earlier posting I typed p.ppm when i MEANT p.map
> oops... other than that what I said is correct.  I think.
> 
> Are there any ppm hackers out there who can chime in
> 
> More stuff below the following.....
> > 
> > Fred,
> > 
> > Now I am even more confused.  Perhaps I should have memtioned in
> > my note that I was following your instructions in GRASSCLIPPINGS
> > 6(1):16 .  After issuing p.select painter=ppm, I ran p.map with
> > scale=6in.  This produced the paint.ppm file, as expected.  Then,
> > on my system I entered:
> > 
> >     ppmtopgm paint.ppm | pgmtops | lpr -Papple
> > 
> > which produced the b&w map, but without the legend or bottom frame
> > line.  In other words, I didn't use p.ppm.  My understanding was
> > that p.map used with ppmtogrm would create my b&w map with the legend.
> > Isn't this the case?  In fact I seem to recall that when I ran p.map
> > I received a message telling me that the map then the colortable were
> > being written to paint.ppm.
> 
> I may be offbase here but I don't remember getting a colortable using
> yes-- p.map with the painter selected as ppm :)
> 
> as to sizing... there was a neat post a while back which illustrates
> one way... this uses xpr to print a xwd formatted file ..
> 
> from Chris Murphy at Oregon State
> 
> pnmtoxwd paint.ppm | xpx -device xxxx -height 17 -width 11 -density 180 -landscape | lpr whatever
> > 
> > Thanks for your reply
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> W. Fredrick Limp,   Director                     FAX: (501) 575-3846
> CAST, Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies   TEL: (501) 575-6159     
> 12 Ozark Hall, University of Arkansas         
> Fayetteville AR 72701                             fred at kirk.uark.edu 
> 


-- 
W. Fredrick Limp,   Director                     FAX: (501) 575-3846
CAST, Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies   TEL: (501) 575-6159     
12 Ozark Hall, University of Arkansas         
Fayetteville AR 72701                             fred at kirk.uark.edu 



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