[GRASS-user] ps.map and cartographic composer

[Paulo van Breugel]

To answer my own question, to control the resolution of the output image
one need to set the region resolution (using g.region) to match the desired
image resolution. I guess the cartographic composer does this somehow
automatically (?).


On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 11:35 PM, Paulo van Breugel <p.vanbreugel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have created a .psmap file to create a map in ps format with the
> cartographic composer. The ps file created is about 35MB.
>
> When using the same .psmap file in in the ps.map function, the ps file
> created is > 1GB (basically the size of the raster file used for the map.
>
> Any idea what I am doing wrong?
>
> The psmap file:
>
> # timestamp: 2014-12-07 21:57
> # location: latlon
> # mapset: plantspecies
> # page orientation: Portrait
> # g.region rast=bvmeat_kg at CSIRO2005
>
> maploc 0.2 0.2 11.8 4.9
> border n
>
> paper
>     width 11.2
>     height 4.5
>     left 0.1
>     right 0.1
>     bottom 0.1
>     top 0.1
>     end
>
> vareas glbl0 at PERMANENT
>     layer 1
>     masked n
>     color 0:0:0
>     width 0.2
>     fcolor none
>     label world_boundaries(PERMANENT)
>     lpos 1
>     end
> raster bvmeat_kg at CSIRO2005
>
>
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