[GRASS-user] editing grass postscript maps

[Dylan Beaudette]

latex ???

On Tuesday 15 May 2007 13:29, Paul Kelly wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2007, Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> > how about concat-ing the figures into a single PS file, then converting
> > to a PDF with 8 pages per sheet ?
>
> psutils (http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html), in
> particular the psnup command, can do this to PostScript without any
> conversion - I've used it sucessfully many times, although the last was
> quite a few years ago now. Perhaps it is installed by default on Debian?
>
> But I was assuming there'd be a need to put extra captions and stuff under
> the maps and re-arrange them on the page, which psnup won't do. I'd say
> definitely the Inkscape approach is the one to go with from this point of
> view; perhaps it's worth investigating in more depth what the problem with
> it is (e.g. look at the raw postscript text where the image is included or
> something - try it with images from the new GRASS postscript display
> driver and compare results or something) before spending a lot of time
> looking at alternative solutions?
>
> Paul
>
> > I know that many KDE apps can do this in the print options -- which
> > probably just invoke gs with some magic incantations...
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > dylan
> >
> > On Tuesday 15 May 2007 12:53, Tyler Smith wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm working on getting my GRASS maps ready for publication. I've
> >> worked my way through ps.map successfully, with eight nice maps. I'd
> >> like to make a single plate with all eight maps. I usually do my
> >> graphics editing with Gimp or Inkscape. However, in Gimp the maps are
> >> very grainy, which I imagine is a consequence of their being converted
> >> from ps to bitmap format. When I try to open them in Inkscape the
> >> vectors come out nice and clear, but the raster layers are completely
> >> absent. I've tried opening them, importing them, and converting them
> >> to svg manually using pstoedit, all with pretty much the same result.
> >>
> >> My questions are:
> >>
> >> Is there a way to make a multi-map plate directly in GRASS, or
> >>
> >> What is the recommended way to manipulate the ps files outside of
> >> GRASS to achieve this? I'm using Debian GNU/Linux, so have ready
> >> access to lots of graphics programs, if anyone can recommend something
> >> better than what I've tried.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Tyler
> >
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> > Dylan Beaudette
> > Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
> > University of California at Davis
> > 530.754.7341
> >
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Dylan Beaudette
Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
University of California at Davis
530.754.7341