#3372: Export map display as vector file from GUI
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Reporter: baharmon | Owner: grass-dev@…
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Default | Version: svn-trunk
Keywords: d.out.file, cairo, svg, gui | CPU: Unspecified
Platform: Unspecified |
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Currently there are only a few format options - png, jpg, bmp, gif, tif -
for exporting the map display with d.out.file using the GUI (rather than
scripting). It would be very useful to be able to export the map display
in a vector file format. This would improve the quality of maps in
publications (with scalable linework and scalable text in legends) and
allow much easier editing. Maps exported in a vector file format such as
svg could then be edited in Inkscape for example. Ideally the export would
include both raster and vector data with the legend and labels saved as
vectors.
Perhaps this could be done by using the cairo driver for d.out.file since
cairo supports pdf, ps, and svg.
d.out.file seems to have had more options in GRASS 6.4 including png, ppm,
tif, geotiff, jpg, bmp, ps, eps, svg, pdf, and a flag for cairo.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/3372>
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