[GRASS-user] how to control label size (v.lable)?

[Rei Hayashi]

Hi Moritz and Hamish,

Thank you for your quick response.  Now, I think I got an idea of
v.label and d.labels in the GRASS.  Now, I am struggling to export the
map with appropriate size of labels in TIFF or PNG format.

Rei Hayashi

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Rei Hayashi:
>> I am using a v.label command (+ d.labels command) to
>> present county names in the states' maps.  I have tried
>> two slightly different commands.
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>> 1)v.label map=XXX type=centroid column=YYY labels=ZZZ fontsize=5 color=red
>> 2)v.label map=XXX type=centroid column=YYY labels=ZZZ size=5 color=red
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>> Both commands resulted in presenting same label size.
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> -what version of GRASS?
> -displayed with d.labels, gis.m GUI, or ps.map?
> -does the $MAPSET/paint/labels/$NAME text file look ok?
> -spearfish or NC dataset example?
> -"works for me"
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>> Also, I run this commands for Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, New
>> Mexico, Arizona and Oregon.  Somehow, the label size in Alabama and
>> Louisiana are same, but bigger than the labels in the rest of states.
>> Also, I tested different fontsize and size (i.e. 20), but the
>> result stayed same way that the label size is bigger in Alabama and
>> Louisiana than other rest of the states.
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> size= option is scale dependent, change the zoom, the text size changes.
> fontsize= is fixed.
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