[GRASS-user] Label difficulties

[Adam Dershowitz]

I am trying to work with a map that has multi-line vector labels,  
over a raster basemap.  I have tried it a few different ways and run  
into different problems with each.
I am using the 6.3 binary by William Kyngesburye on  Mac.
First I just tried adding the two characters "\n" to the labels, then  
ran v.label.
If I then add a raster label layer it does go over several lines, and  
all looks correct.  The problem is when I try to save it to jpg and  
print it that the text is too "pixelated" and looks terrible (also  
looks the same if I save it to a pdf).  I tried changing the  
resolution with g.region, but it did not seem to have any effect.   
The current region is set to the resolution of the actual raster  
basemap, so maybe that is why?
Next I tried adding a postscript label layer instead.  That layer  
looks good on the screen and when saved to a PDF, in terms of the  
resolution.  The problem is that the "\n" in the text is showing up  
explicitly, as those two characters, rather then causing a new line  
in the labels.  So the labels have these extra characters and break  
in odd places.  This is the case both when viewing this layer in the  
Map display and the saved version.
So my main question is how can I get good quality multi-line labels  
to a saved file?  Is there a way to cause the font resolution to be  
higher in my raster layer?  Is there a way to get a vector layer to  
break across multiple lines where I want?  Is there some other  
solution that I am missing?

Thanks,


--Adam