Carto output

[Malcolm Williamson]

> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Are any of you using grass to output high quality cartographic products.
> If so, what do you use?  I was using ps.map the other day, but I could 
> not get it to do what I want.  I would like my geographic region to be
> slightly smaller that the page bounds and to have text in the margin 
> between the geographic region and the map bounds.  Can this be done?

No problem. "Grow" your region so that it is larger than what you actually
want to display, and use a mask to keep raster and vector layers off of that
part of the plot. You can place text using either the text or comments command.
You *will* end up with a border around your entire plot. I usually use the line
command to make a new border around the map. Simply get the corner coordinates
of your mask.


> 
> Also, anyone using ps.map with an SGI?  The ps file appears to be 
> incompatible with what SGI wants.  I.e., impressario and vstiff do not
> recognize the file.  I get a psrip error.  Any ideas?

Can't help you here. It does generate Encapsulated PostScript.

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Stephen Dzurenko
>  Ocean Mapping Division
>  Ocean Technology Center 
>  Graduate School of Oceanography
>  University of Rhode Island
> 
>  ph: 401 792-6879
>  fx: 401 792-6849
>  e-mail: steve at ocean.oce.uri.edu
> 


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