ps.map postscript

[Malcolm Williamson]

> 
> Some time ago there was a discussion about the postscript produced by
> ps.map.  The problem was that the ps.map postscript files could not be
> read in by other programs.  I generated a postscript file with the new
> version of ps.map from grass/incoming, then tried to load it with xv, 
> but xv will not recognize it as an image file.  The header in the 
> ps.map postscript file does indicate "%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0" which
> suggests it is an encapsulated postscript file.  Was this problem ever
> resolved?
> 
> 	Bill Baker
> 	bakerwl at uwyo.edu
> 
Bill,
I'm not an expert on this, but I do not believe that ps.map writes in strictly
encapsulated postscript. In order to view a file you're going to need a real
postscript viewer, such as GhostScript (GhostView?) or Sun's Pageview.

Regards,
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