[GRASS-user] GUI enhancements

[Moritz Lennert]

On 14/06/07 23:40, Maciej Sieczka wrote:
> Glynn Clements wrote:
>> Michael Barton wrote:
>>
>>>> Perhaps these have been mentioned before but I haven't found it.
>>>> Possible additions to the GUI:
>>>> 1) Various styles of dotted or dashed lines
>>>> 2) Ability to select multiple files (say vectors) and change them (say
>>>> colour or width) all simultaneously.
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to display a dem basemap, hydrology layer, and 10 important
>>>> vector lines all in grey scale (for publication). There just aren't
>>>> enough shades of grey for that.
> 
>>> Good ideas that I and other people would like to see too. These would need
>>> to be implemented in the underlying GRASS display command (d.vect) rather
>>> than the GUI. It can only show what d.vect produces.
>> And d.vect can only produce that which is supported by the graphics
>> architecture. Currently, that doesn't include dashed lines.
>>
>> Wait for 7.x, when extending the set of available graphics functions
>> will become a lot easier.
> 
> For now you can try QGIS, which reads GRASS vectors (and rasters, if
> gdal-grass plugin is installed). It provides several line and point
> styles, polygon fill patterns, thematic mapping, and a GUI map composer
> with ps/pdf/svg/bitmap output option. Be warned though that the map
> composer has problems: irregular letter spacing, labels placement and
> size in the project not always corresponds to that on the resultant
> map, line widths in the legend happen to not correspond to those on the
> map, vector point symbols get rasterized in the ps/pdf/svg output. At
> least some of these are due to bugs in (older?) QT. In spite of these
> issues, AFAICT QGIS provides the only *GUI* map composer for GRASS data
> currently.

If you need this for ps/hardopy output, ps.map allows you to define 
dashed line styles.

Moritz