Hi, I've managed to print each site's description with ps.map, but I'm
having the following problems (I enclose a small jpg which shows them
well):
1) The description is framed by a border with large width. Is it
possible to get rid of that border?
2) The description has a white background. Is it possible to not have
background? (Or to have transparent background?)
3) I can't print descriptions with Greek (iso-8859-7) characters. I
suspect I have to specify the correct font in the ps.map input
file, but I'm confused: do I have to specify a ghostscript font name
like those found in /usr/share/gs/X.XX/Fontmap.GS?
4) Is there any way to specify the position of the description, so
that it does not interfere with other sites or map elements?
Thanks!
Here's the relevant part from my ps.map input file:
sites monuments
color black
eps monuments$.eps
size 1
desc y
font Roman
end
Antonios Christofides wrote:
Hi, I've managed to print each site's description with ps.map, but I'm
having the following problems (I enclose a small jpg which shows them
well):
1) The description is framed by a border with large width. Is it
possible to get rid of that border?
No.
2) The description has a white background. Is it possible to not have
background? (Or to have transparent background?)
No.
3) I can't print descriptions with Greek (iso-8859-7) characters. I
suspect I have to specify the correct font in the ps.map input
file, but I'm confused: do I have to specify a ghostscript font name
like those found in /usr/share/gs/X.XX/Fontmap.GS?
Yes. All PostScript implementations have the Greek alphabet in the
"Symbol" font, but that uses PostScript's non-standard SymbolEncoding,
so you would have to convert the text somehow.
You could probably configure Ghostscript to use an ISO-8859-7 font,
but printing to a PostScript printer (or even generating PostScript
files which others can read) would be more problematic.
4) Is there any way to specify the position of the description, so
that it does not interfere with other sites or map elements?
No.
--
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>
Glynn Clements wrote:
[ When you print site descriptions with ps.map, you can't get rid of
the border and background color, and you can't specify placement. ]
OK, so what's the workaround? You use the ps.map "text" command instead
of printing site descriptions? How about when you have a map with many
names, such as a map with, say, 500 towns and villages? You create a
huge ps.map input file with 500 "text" commands? Is this a missing
feature of GRASS?
Antonios Christofides wrote:
[ When you print site descriptions with ps.map, you can't get rid of
the border and background color, and you can't specify placement. ]
OK, so what's the workaround? You use the ps.map "text" command instead
of printing site descriptions? How about when you have a map with many
names, such as a map with, say, 500 towns and villages? You create a
huge ps.map input file with 500 "text" commands? Is this a missing
feature of GRASS?
Yes, it's a missing feature.
GRASS is primarily an analysis package; its cartographic abilities are
fairly basic.
You may wish to look into GMT:
http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/
--
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>
If you want to make a good looking map, either export files in Arcview format and work in Arcview, or export the eps and work in a drawing programm like Adobe Illustrator.
Konstantinos Theofilis
On Sunday, June 8, 2003, at 06:29 PM, Glynn Clements wrote:
Antonios Christofides wrote:
[ When you print site descriptions with ps.map, you can't get rid of
the border and background color, and you can't specify placement. ]
OK, so what's the workaround? You use the ps.map "text" command instead
of printing site descriptions? How about when you have a map with many
names, such as a map with, say, 500 towns and villages? You create a
huge ps.map input file with 500 "text" commands? Is this a missing
feature of GRASS?
Yes, it's a missing feature.
GRASS is primarily an analysis package; its cartographic abilities are
fairly basic.
You may wish to look into GMT:
http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/
--
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>
On 2003-06-08, 14:52 GMT, Antonios Christofides wrote:
OK, so what's the workaround?
Export to EPS and then with some drawing program (Sketch in my case; you
need also pstoedit to be installed) edit the drawings to get desired
results.
Matej
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