[GRASSLIST:4718] Re: Question about ps.map

[Doug Gorley]

On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 00:59, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> Doug Gorley wrote:
> 
> > I have a question regarding ps.map.  I've created a ps.map input file
> > that looks like this:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > This is working great, except for one thing: if I use d.zoom to display
> > a certain part of the map, that's the only part that'll show up in my
> > Postscript map.  Is this the intended behaviour,
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > or am I missing
> > something in the configuration?  Ideally, I thought the ps.map file
> > should be able to specify a center of the map, and the scale should be
> > independent on the d.mon display.
> 
> It isn't just ps.map which is affected. Almost all GRASS commands
> operate upon the current region, and d.zoom changes the current
> region. d.zoom is effectively an interactive version of g.region.
> 
> -- 
> Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>
> 

Thanks, that's a big help.  Is there any way I can specify the region I
want to map in the input file to ps.map, so that the script will
generate the same map every time?

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