[GRASS-user] need help with mac os x installation

[Michael Barton]

On 9/3/07 9:59 PM, "William Kyngesburye" <woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:

> I got to thinking about the GS license (it's GPL now) and I'll either
> have to make it a separate download or find an existing Mac binary,
> or maybe use an older AFPL GS.  Maybe there's an equivalent in the
> system somewhere - it already uses CUPS for printing, maybe there's a
> CLI postscript renderer...
> 
> Is your GUI printing use of GS the only thing in GRASS that uses it?
> Does it generate an image, or print-ready postscript?

All of the above

You can look at the bottom of mapprint.tcl

gs is used for 3 things: 1) PS to PNG to send to lpr, 2) PS to PS device, 3)
PS to PDF file.

Michael

> 
> On Sep 3, 2007, at 11:33 PM, Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>> Yea. TclTk (at least the packages we use) doesn't have any good
>> built in
>> printing routines. I wrote one that is included in the GUI, but it
>> needs
>> ghostscript to translate from the native postscript of the canvas
>> into print
>> output.
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
>> 
>> On 9/3/07 8:57 PM, "William Kyngesburye" <woklist at kyngchaos.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Ah.  Another one to work on bundling in my binaries.
>>> 
>>> On Sep 3, 2007, at 7:49 PM, Michael Barton wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Ghostscript is also used by the GUI if available to allow direct
>>>> printing
>>>> from a map display.
>>>> 
>>>> Michael
> 
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