[GRASSLIST:5687] Re: d.mon stop=CELL and Mac OSX

[Nick Cahill]

I have used ps.map successfully under Mac OSX, but using XDarwin rather 
than Apple's X11 software. I used the ps.map GUI interface, which 
allows you to specify an output file, a script file, etc. Is it 
possible that your script file is saved using Mac line breaks rather 
than Unix line breaks? GRASS might not read that file successfully; it 
has to use Unix line breaks. This is a weakness of OSX which I haven't 
seen Apple address -- the Unix part of the system uses one characters 
for returns, while the Mac part uses another. BBEdit (including the 
Lite version) will open & save in both, and is useful for writing text 
files; or you can use vi or emacs or something. Probably you know all 
about that; it screwed me up for a while, though.

r.out.tiff also works for me; you might have to rescale your raster map 
to categories from 1-255, though.

In general I haven't had any problems exporting maps from GRASS.

HTH,

Nick Cahill
Dept. of Art History
Univ. of Wisconsin; and
Sardis Expedition, Turkey



On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 11:07  AM, John Chesnut wrote:

> Questions regarding Grass 5.0 (the OpenOSX binary distribution)
>
> Configuration:
> 	Mac G4,
>  	OSX 10.2.3,
>  	X11 beta 0.2 (window manager),
>  	Wish 8.4.1 (tcltk interface)
>  	Grass 5.0.0 binary from OpenOSX
>
>  Issue:
>   I am having difficulty saving a completed composite map to file. The 
> following approaches do not work.
>
>
>  CELL driver fails on d.mon stop=CELL
>  does not write a CELL file, and leaves a "zombie" d.mon window and 
> CELL process which must be killed manuallly
>
> "p.map.new" fails in the "keyboard" option interactive window after 
> p.select painter=preview (only option) is run.
>
> "ps.map input=- output=map.ps" fails after creating a zero byte map.ps 
> file: the process does not exit.
>
> the PNG monitor is apparently not part of the binary distribution (is 
> it available for Mac OS X ?
>
> xFig command is not found. xfig is probably not available for Mac OS X.
>
> cell.out.tiff script does not work because grasstcltk window extends 
> off display (1280x960), and the run button cannot be accessed !
>
> I do not know which of these failures are due to the specific binary I 
> have, and which are inherent limitation of the Mac OS X-X11-Wish 
> configuration.
>
> If anyone has an approach which will save a composite map (vector, 
> raster, and graphic grid elements) to files under a Mac system I would 
> appreciate hearing the specific approach used.
>
> -john chesnut
> Treetotalers
>