[GRASS-user] Vector layers > Photoshop

Nick Cahill ndcahill at wisc.edu
Fri May 29 09:23:51 EDT 2009


Dear Aaron,

I've used ps.map to do this - it will produce a postscript file that  
most pdf/postscript aware programs can read. I have used Adobe  
Illustrator with more success than Photoshop for modifying such files.

Nick Cahill



On May 29, 2009, at 4:06 PM, Aaron Bonding wrote:

>
> I'm more or less a noob to Grass and GIS (graphic designer by trade  
> and a
> mapophile by hobby), so please forgive my ignorance. I'm working in  
> Grass
> 6.2.1 (OpenOSX via X11) if that helps.
>
> I have a shaded raster DEM as a base and several simple vector  
> layers. I can
> easily export this raster as a TIFF, but I also need the vector layers
> exported to a format that Photoshop can read. I've been largely  
> unsuccessful
> in converting the vector layers to raster with v.to.rast (then the  
> raster to
> TIFF). Is there a step I'm missing that would make this easier?
>
> It seems like I need to convert to raster first so they will fit on  
> top of
> each other without much work in Photoshop, ie. each layer > TIFF,  
> then just
> have each TIFF as a layer.
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