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== Installation ==
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After installation launch ''Hardcopy Map Output Utility'' from wxGUI menu
After installation launch ''Hardcopy Map Output Utility'' from wxGUI menu
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  g.extension.py -s svnurl=https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass-addons extension=wx.psmap
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[[Image:wxGUI-install-addons-cmd.png|center|480px|thumb|Installing wx.psmap from wxGUI Command Prompt]]
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== Input ==
== Input ==

Revision as of 12:12, 22 May 2011

Back to wxGUI.

For development issues see Trac page.

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) uses semi-WYSIWYG + tree menu controls which can write a ps.map instructions 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


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
  • PDF file