Perhaps these have been mentioned before but I haven't found it.
Possible additions to the GUI:
1) Various styles of dotted or dashed lines
2) Ability to select multiple files (say vectors) and change them (say
colour or width) all simultaneously.
I'm trying to display a dem basemap, hydrology layer, and 10 important
vector lines all in grey scale (for publication). There just aren't
enough shades of grey for that.
Thanks,
C
Good ideas that I and other people would like to see too. These would need
to be implemented in the underlying GRASS display command (d.vect) rather
than the GUI. It can only show what d.vect produces.
Michael
On 6/14/07 8:03 AM, "Colin Nielsen" <colin.nielsen@mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:
Perhaps these have been mentioned before but I haven't found it.
Possible additions to the GUI:
1) Various styles of dotted or dashed lines
2) Ability to select multiple files (say vectors) and change them (say
colour or width) all simultaneously.I'm trying to display a dem basemap, hydrology layer, and 10 important
vector lines all in grey scale (for publication). There just aren't
enough shades of grey for that.Thanks,
C
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Michael Barton wrote:
> Perhaps these have been mentioned before but I haven't found it.
> Possible additions to the GUI:
> 1) Various styles of dotted or dashed lines
> 2) Ability to select multiple files (say vectors) and change them (say
> colour or width) all simultaneously.
>
> I'm trying to display a dem basemap, hydrology layer, and 10 important
> vector lines all in grey scale (for publication). There just aren't
> enough shades of grey for that.Good ideas that I and other people would like to see too. These would need
to be implemented in the underlying GRASS display command (d.vect) rather
than the GUI. It can only show what d.vect produces.
And d.vect can only produce that which is supported by the graphics
architecture. Currently, that doesn't include dashed lines.
Wait for 7.x, when extending the set of available graphics functions
will become a lot easier.
--
Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
Glynn Clements wrote:
Michael Barton wrote:
Perhaps these have been mentioned before but I haven't found it.
Possible additions to the GUI:
1) Various styles of dotted or dashed lines
2) Ability to select multiple files (say vectors) and change them (say
colour or width) all simultaneously.I'm trying to display a dem basemap, hydrology layer, and 10 important
vector lines all in grey scale (for publication). There just aren't
enough shades of grey for that.
Good ideas that I and other people would like to see too. These would need
to be implemented in the underlying GRASS display command (d.vect) rather
than the GUI. It can only show what d.vect produces.And d.vect can only produce that which is supported by the graphics
architecture. Currently, that doesn't include dashed lines.Wait for 7.x, when extending the set of available graphics functions
will become a lot easier.
For now you can try QGIS, which reads GRASS vectors (and rasters, if
gdal-grass plugin is installed). It provides several line and point
styles, polygon fill patterns, thematic mapping, and a GUI map composer
with ps/pdf/svg/bitmap output option. Be warned though that the map
composer has problems: irregular letter spacing, labels placement and
size in the project not always corresponds to that on the resultant
map, line widths in the legend happen to not correspond to those on the
map, vector point symbols get rasterized in the ps/pdf/svg output. At
least some of these are due to bugs in (older?) QT. In spite of these
issues, AFAICT QGIS provides the only *GUI* map composer for GRASS data
currently.
Maciek
On 14/06/07 23:40, Maciej Sieczka wrote:
Glynn Clements wrote:
Michael Barton wrote:
Perhaps these have been mentioned before but I haven't found it.
Possible additions to the GUI:
1) Various styles of dotted or dashed lines
2) Ability to select multiple files (say vectors) and change them (say
colour or width) all simultaneously.I'm trying to display a dem basemap, hydrology layer, and 10 important
vector lines all in grey scale (for publication). There just aren't
enough shades of grey for that.Good ideas that I and other people would like to see too. These would need
to be implemented in the underlying GRASS display command (d.vect) rather
than the GUI. It can only show what d.vect produces.And d.vect can only produce that which is supported by the graphics
architecture. Currently, that doesn't include dashed lines.Wait for 7.x, when extending the set of available graphics functions
will become a lot easier.For now you can try QGIS, which reads GRASS vectors (and rasters, if
gdal-grass plugin is installed). It provides several line and point
styles, polygon fill patterns, thematic mapping, and a GUI map composer
with ps/pdf/svg/bitmap output option. Be warned though that the map
composer has problems: irregular letter spacing, labels placement and
size in the project not always corresponds to that on the resultant
map, line widths in the legend happen to not correspond to those on the
map, vector point symbols get rasterized in the ps/pdf/svg output. At
least some of these are due to bugs in (older?) QT. In spite of these
issues, AFAICT QGIS provides the only *GUI* map composer for GRASS data
currently.
If you need this for ps/hardopy output, ps.map allows you to define dashed line styles.
Moritz
Moritz Lennert wrote:
On 14/06/07 23:40, Maciej Sieczka wrote:
AFAICT QGIS provides the only *GUI* map composer for GRASS data
currently.
If you need this for ps/hardopy output, ps.map allows you to define
dashed line styles.
Moritz,
I said *GUI*.
Maciek
Moritz Lennert wrote:
If you need this for ps/hardopy output, ps.map allows you to define
dashed line styles.
see:
http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/AreaFillPatterns
Hamish
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Maciej Sieczka wrote:
Moritz Lennert wrote:
On 14/06/07 23:40, Maciej Sieczka wrote:
AFAICT QGIS provides the only *GUI* map composer for GRASS data
currently.If you need this for ps/hardopy output, ps.map allows you to define
dashed line styles.Moritz,
I said *GUI*.
But no-one had yet mentioned ps.map in this thread. Is it a sin to mention it? 
As far as I can see Moritz was more trying to answer the original user's problem (need dashed lines on a map to be published) than specifically answer what he asked (can we get dashed lines in a GUI). I'm not saying this is true but it could be he simply wasn't aware that ps.map would be more suitable for this. Sometimes people don't always ask the most appropriate question to lead to a solution for their problem...
Paul
Hamish wrote:
Moritz Lennert wrote:
If you need this for ps/hardopy output, ps.map allows you to define
dashed line styles.
Colin wanted dashed lines not polygon patterns:
Colin Nielsen wrote:
1) Various styles of dotted or dashed lines
So if he was to try ps.map, the relevant functionality is "style"
subinstruction of "vlines".
Just to make things clear.
Cheers,
Maciek
Paul Kelly wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Maciej Sieczka wrote:
Moritz Lennert wrote:
On 14/06/07 23:40, Maciej Sieczka wrote:
AFAICT QGIS provides the only *GUI* map composer for GRASS data
currently.If you need this for ps/hardopy output, ps.map allows you to define
dashed line styles.Moritz,
I said *GUI*.
And, most importantly I forgot to say, Colin also meant GUI.
But no-one had yet mentioned ps.map in this thread. Is it a sin to
mention it?
Ok ok :). Treat my post as a clarification that ps.map is not GUI. Or
should we assume everybody knows?
Sometimes people don't
always ask the most appropriate question to lead to a solution for their
problem...
On the other hand, I find it irritating that when I ask a specific
question I get an answer not related. Especially when after such an
answer the discussion starts drifting into another direction; like it
does now :). My fault too, so I'll better shut up.
Cheers!
Maciek