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 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
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
Video tutorial
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