WxGUI Cartographic Composer

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ps.map (see also ps.output) is a cartographic composer, intended to be a stand-alone hardcopy plot generator. It is not meant to be a Print button for the maps currently displayed in the map canvas, that will need it own controls.

The GUI -- Hardcopy Map Output Utility (so called wx.psmap) will prepare a semi-WYSIWYG + tree menu controls which can write a ps.map control file, and then run ps.map to create PostScript output directly. See the announcement in the mailing list.

wx.psmap - draft mode

The GUI currently supports the most important mapping instructions

• paper
• scale
• maploc
• rast
• vects
• scalebar
• mapinfo
• legend
• text labels

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  wx.psmap - page setup dialog

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  wx.psmap - mapinfo dialog

Installation

After installation launch Hardcopy Map Output Utility from wxGUI menu

File -> Hardcopy Map Output Utility

Requirements

• GRASS 6.4.2+ is required. On MS Windows you can try daily builds which already comes wx.psmap installed.
• (optional) Python Imaging Library for preview functionality
• (optional) ps2pdf for PDF export

From wxGUI

Setting -> Install extension from add-ons

1. Click on "Fetch" button
2. Choose "wxGUI | wx.psmap"
3. Check in "Install system-wide (may need system administrator rights)"
4. And install selected extension by clicking on "Install"

Installing wx.psmap from wxGUI

From Command Prompt

In GRASS 7

g.extension -s svnurl=https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass-addons extension=wx.psmap

In GRASS 6

Note: g.extension in GRASS 6 doesn't support installing wxGUI extensions. You can install wx.psmap from wxGUI Command prompt using Python version of g.extension available as g.extension.py

g.extension.py -s svnurl=https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass-addons extension=wx.psmap

Installing wx.psmap from wxGUI Command Prompt

Input

• Ability to load in saved ps.map instructions file. I consider this to be a low priority, deal with it after map creation is fully functional. Start with scripts saved using the GUI, after that is working expand to load any ps.map instructions file.

Outputs

• ps.map instructions file
• PostScript file