[GRASSLIST:5073] Re: Width of geogrid lines in ps.map

[Hamish]

> > Good news and bad news.  Good news is I successfully hacked my first 
> > postscript file and made the grid lines wider!

Easy to do & quite powerful for little tweaks.


> >  Bad news is that is 
> > appears that the raster file portion of the postscript file was some 
> > kind of binary that was blasted when I saved the postscript file as 
> > text.  The resulting postscript file still converted to pdf, but all 
> > that was left really nice, width-controlled lines.

[for the record it isn't; rasters are stored as RGB triplets as rrggbb.
Problem probably was introducing a PostScript language bug]

 
> > I echo your request for "someone" to add line width control to the 
> > geogrid function in ps.map.
> 
> Heh.  Well, it's there already in grass 5.7 --- just checked.  It's not
> in the documentation, but it's recognized by the code and works.  Just
> add "width 2" to the geogrid section and you get wider lines.

:) well that was easy.

Documentation updated in CVS.


Hamish