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 (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 PDF output directly. Loading a ps.map control file is harder and can happen later.

The GUI currently supports the most important mapping instructions

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

Installation

Note: GRASS 6.5+ is required. On MS Windows you can try daily builds for GRASS 6.5 or GRASS 7.0 which contains also wx.psmap.

After installation launch GUI for ps.map from wxGUI menu

File -> Hardcopy Map Output Utility

From wxGUI

Setting -> Install extension from add-ons

• Click on "Fetch" button
• Choose "wxGUI | wx.psmap"
• 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 by

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 scripts. 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
• PDF File [PostScript tmp file]