GRASS and xfig map drawing

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Hi,

as far as I am currently working with lots of vector maps:
Does anyone know an way to export GRASS vector maps
to "xfig"?

(Xfig is a nice freeware drawing tool, which can be used
to produce nice maps: http://www-epb.lbl.gov/BVSmith/xfig/

- it accepts raster images (r.out tiff -> xv -> GIF)
- it accepts vector drawings (but only its own ASCII format)
- it outputs Postscript, Latex, raster images etc.
- it accepts xx MB raster files for big maps
)

So something like a module "v.out.xfig" would be helpful for
importing GRASS vector maps directly into xfig.
Did anyone start writing this or is there a different way?

Thanks!

  Markus

2

Markus Neteler wrote:

So something like a module "v.out.xfig" would be helpful for
importing GRASS vector maps directly into xfig.
Did anyone start writing this or is there a different way?

Thought about it, but then found xcircuit instead, which had a far
easier though more limited user interface. It does have the advantage
of storing the data straight in PostScript. I preferred the object
encapsulation model of xcircuit over xfig.

Never got around to needing to move GRASS vectors to it though.

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Should not be too difficult using an script over
the output of v.out.ascii
Could you send me a (short) example of input xfig vector file?

Agus

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On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Markus Neteler wrote:

Hi,

as far as I am currently working with lots of vector maps:
Does anyone know an way to export GRASS vector maps
to "xfig"?

(Xfig is a nice freeware drawing tool, which can be used
to produce nice maps: http://www-epb.lbl.gov/BVSmith/xfig/

- it accepts raster images (r.out tiff -> xv -> GIF)
- it accepts vector drawings (but only its own ASCII format)
- it outputs Postscript, Latex, raster images etc.
- it accepts xx MB raster files for big maps
)

So something like a module "v.out.xfig" would be helpful for
importing GRASS vector maps directly into xfig.
Did anyone start writing this or is there a different way?

Thanks!

  Markus

4

as far as I am currently working with lots of vector maps:
Does anyone know an way to export GRASS vector maps
to "xfig"?
...
So something like a module "v.out.xfig" would be helpful for
importing GRASS vector maps directly into xfig.
Did anyone start writing this or is there a different way?

Here are 2 small AWK programs that could help you:

- grass2fig converts a file that has been exported from GRASS
  in ASCII vector format (with v.export / format 2) to FIG 3.2 format

- fig2grass converts a file in FIG 3.2 format to a file in
  ASCII vector format (to be imported in GRASS with v.import / format 2)

Bye

Jacques

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