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) 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.

The wx.psmap is available in GRASS 6.4.2+ from the menu

File -> Hardcopy Map Output Utility

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

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