[GRASS-user] dpi output from ps.map

[Gerald Nelson]

We eventually figured out about the region settings being key. But it would
have made my life much easier to be able to specify a dpi setting. Adobe
photoshop/illustrator folks just seem to live by this measure.

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 09:14:13PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the <nelson.gerald at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> >    We need to have a raster eps or pdf that has a dpi of 300. Reading
> through
> >    the old list entries it appears that ps.map had a hard coded limit of
> 75
> >    dpi.
>
> Have you tried it?  I believe that hard-coded limit was taken out years
> ago.
> (as I recall, I may even have been the person who complained about it on
> this list, as I had a big raster I needed to render on a large-format
> printer,
> and this hard-coded limit was in the way.)
>
> In fact, I'm pretty sure that this limitation is long gone.  Look at the
> documentation for a current version of ps.map, and it'll tell you that
> raster
> resolution is controlled by the region settings.
>
> What old list entries were you reading?
>
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