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 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.

• Start with most important mapping instructions
  • paper
  • scale
  • maploc
  • rast
  • vects
  • grids
  • scalebar
  • mapinfo
  • text labels

Outputs

• ps.map instructions file
• PostScript file (ps.map instructions tmp file)
• lpr [PostScript tmp file]
• PDF File [PostScript tmp file]

Inputs

• 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.