Ps.output

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The ps.out try to update the standard postscript output of Grass adding new features to design borders, graticules, categorized legends, etc

This is in progress and not all features are yet uploaded in addons.

Command line flags

-d : Draw a 1x1 cm grid on paper to help the placement of the elements of the map.

-e: Create an output file for embedding into another ps.out map

-g: Use the extended PostScript of Ghostscript (for transparent colors only)

-s: Draw the small digit in the coordinate numbers to lower instead upper position.

Generic Instructions

Parameters

dimen

Define a dimension. Accepted units are:

  • unitless
    e.g. 123. The dimension is the number by 1/72".
  • inch
    e.g. 1.2inch.
  • milimeters
    e.g. 2.3mm.
  • centimeters
    e.g. 1.4cm.
  • percentage
    e.g. 50%.
    The position is relative to the size and position of the map in the paper being 0% the left or bottom corner.

color

Define a color. Accepted formats are:

  • standard GRASS name
    e.g. indigo.
  • R:G:B
    e.g. 200:123:90
  • user name
    e.g. red5.
    Defined in palette block

All formats can add '$(0-1)' to define the opacity of the color (alpha channel); e.g., indigo$.75 or 200:120:120$.2

number

text

Blocks of instructions

A block begin with the keywords and finish with keyword end

font

Define the characteristic of a font.

name (text)
Name of font.
size (dimen)
Size of font.
extend (dimen)
Expand the width of font.
color (color)
Color of font.
outline yes|no
Outline of the font.

line

Define the characteristic of a line.

width (dimen)
Width of line.
color (color)
Color of line.
style solid|dashed|dotted|dashdotted|(n1n2...)
Style of line.
cap butt|round|extended_butt
Cap
extended type step [voffset height width]
Extended style of line for use mainly with rects.
type = arrow, bar, circled_semi, double_bar, point, rombo, square, triangle, xcross, zigzag (you can use only the first char; and uppercase for filled version).
step = (dimen).
voffset = (dimen).
height = (dimen).
width = (dimen).
baseline (y|n)
Work with the extended option to define if the baseline is drawn.

fill

Define the characteristic of a fill area.

color (color)
Fill color.
pat (file)
Fill pattern.
lwidth (dimen)
Line width of the fill pattern.
scale (number)
Scale of the fill pattern.
limit (dimen)
Limit the fill to the border with a width of dimen.

frame

Define the characteristic of a frame.

where (dimen.1 dimen.2)
Position of frame.
offset (number.1 number.2)
Fine x and y adjust of the position of frame.
ref right|left|center upper|lower|center
Position is relative to the ref.
border (dimen)
Width of the border line
color (color)
Color of the border line.
fcolor (color)
Fillcolor of the frame.
rotate (dimen)
todo

legend

lpos (number)
Position in legend
Codes: -1, no show in legend; 0 automatic position; > 0 horizontal position.
cols (number.1 [number.2])
Organize legend in number.1 cols with a optional span of number.2
interline (dimen)
Set partial legend interline

Map paper

paper

Size of paper.


paper [A0-6|B0-6|Legal|Ledger|Tabloid|Executive|Folio]
Type of paper (default A4).


color (color)
Paper color.
width (dimen), height (dimen)
Custom size of paper.
left (dimen), right (dimen), top (dimen), bottom (dimen)
Custom margins (default 0.5" left and right, and 1" top and bottom).
landscape yes|no
Paper orientation (default no).
font
Block font. Set the default font of the map.
draw
Block draw. Free draw as watermarks, before any feature of the map is drawn (see draw).

scale

Scale of the map.

Simple line command to define the scale of the map. The default is adjust map to the paper dimensions. If the remaining dimensions of the paper not permit the scale, ps.out adjust the scale to a new value that it fit in the paper.


scale 1:(number)
Scale of map.
For example, scale 1:500000 to rescale maparea dimensions.

maparea

Define specific dimensions of the map (default defined by command scale)


maparea
Define characteristics of the map area.


border (dimen)
Width of the border map.
Usefull with in and out formats of the grid and geogrid, ignored in iho and can formats.
color (color)
Border color-
fcolor (color)
Fillcolor of the map area.
width (dimen), height (dimen)
Dimensions of the map.
top (dimen), bottom (dimen)
Position of the top-left corner of the map.
draw
Block draw.
Draw onto the map but before the grid lines, vpoints and vlabels are drawn; i.e. this map elements are drawn over the draw elements.

palette

testing


palette


light (color text)
dark (color text)
wheel (number text)
monochrome (color number text)
complementary (color number text)
analogous (color number text)
gradient (color.1 color.2 number text)
binary (color name)
sequential (color.1 color.2 number text)
qualitative (number text)
diverging (color.1 color.2 number text)

Common elements

grid and geogrid

Draw a border around the map.


grid|geogrid


format in|out|+out|can|iho
Type of border (see examples).
major (number|angle)
Block line. Usually, number is merters and angle only in geogrid.
minor (number|angle)
Block line. Usually, number is merters and angle only in geogrid.
subminor (number)
number of subdivisons of the minor divisions.
trim (number)
Cut trailing zeros.
font
Block font.
fcolor (color)
Color of the border.
cross (number)
Replace lines by cross


scalebar

Set a scalebar on the map.
Maximun 5 scalebars in each map.


scalebar I|l|s|S|f|F
Define the type of scalebar (I: inner, l: line, s/S: simple, f/F: fill).


length (number)
Length of the scale.
units meters|m|kilometers|km|feet|ft|miles|mil|nautical_miles|nm ([text])
Unit of the length and text' to label the units.
major (number.1 [number.2])
Define the number.1 of subdivisions and each number.2 set the labels.
minor (number.1 [number.2])
Define the number.1 of subdivisions and each number.2 set the labels.
frame
Block frame
font
Block font
fcolor (color)
Fillcolor.
height (dimen)
Height of the bar or ticks.
zero yes|no
Set position relative to zero value of the scalebar.


note

Write special text or free text on any place of the paper with frame (also draw permit write free-text in paper).

Maximun 20 notes by map.


note :file|:maplimits|:dimen|:scale (text)|(text)
Type of note and text to show.
When free text, use '|' to break lines and '.' as first character to center line.


text (text)
Another roption to enter the same as inline note text;
frame
Block frame.
font
Block font.
width (dimen)
Width of note.
angle (number)
number of degrees to rotate (do not work fine).


draw

Simple script language to draw predefined postscript code.


draw [none|paper|maparea|free]

paper: before any map feature is drawn (equivalent to place inside paper block);
maparea before the last elements of the map (equivalent to place inside mapare block) ;
none: draw over all elements of the map but only in the map area; and
free: after all map features are drawn in any place of the paper; and none.


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Raster maps

raster

Draw one or two raster maps on the maparea.


raster (raster|raster.1 raster.2|raster.R raster.G raster.B|:group)
The raster value is the raster mapname, two raster maps raster.1 or color and raster.2 or shade to draw as relief map, three maps raster.R, raster.G and raster.B to draw as RGB, or a groupname (leader by ':') with tree RGB maps.


The next commands are optionals:

hillshade yes|no
Use when draw a shaded raster to draw hillshade.
See http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Ps.out_Making_maps#The_second_output
grey yes|no
Store and draw the rasters in grey scale (small size of file).
The conversion follows the NTSC video standard.
maskcell (raster.1 [raster.2])
Set the raster.1 map to use as mask (independent of the mask set in GRASS with r.mask) and, optionally, the raster.2 map uses as background.
The background raster.2 is painted in grey scale (NTSC) and tinted with maskcolor.
maskcolor (color|none)
Set the color of the mask area.
If a raster map as background is set then it's drawn with a scale white-maskcolor.
outline
Block line. Outline of categories.
setcolor null|default|(number) (color)
Replace the color of the cat number area with a new color.
Multiple setcolor are possibles.


Vector maps

All vector map accept optionally the following commands:


layer (number)
Layer number used with cats/where option.
cats (n1,n2,...)
List of cats to show.
where (text)
Argument of the SQL where clausule to filter the areas to show.
masked yes|no
Masked or not by raster mask (default no).
label (text)
For description or title in vlegend.
legend [(number)]
Position in legend (-1, no legend) or enter in a block legend.


vareas

Draw areas on the map.
The areas always are drawn first, on the bottom of other type of maps.


vareas (vector)
vector is a vector of areas, except when lwidth is different to zero that vector is a vector of lines.


The next commands are optionals:

type area|line
Default area.
line
Block line. Style of the boundary.
fill
Block fill. Style of the area.
rgbcol (column.1 [column.2])
Dynamic fill color in a column.1 of the database, or conditional color from rules applied to column.2 of the database.
setnorule (text)
Text label when default conditions.
setrule (n1-n2[:color][|dimen] text)
Make a item of a sublegend with label the text and title the text of the label.
The fillcolor of the areas is set to color and the line width is set to dimen when column.2 >= n1 and column.2 < n2 (column.2 from rgbcol).

Special commands:

island yes|no
Draw island as normal areas (fill as normal area then hide it).
mirror (dimen [number])
The line is drawn as an area with a copy of the line placed with polar coordinates: dimen' and angle.

vlines

Draw lines on the map.
The areas always are drawn second, after vareas and before vpoints.


vlines (vector)

vector is a vector of lines, except if type is boundary that vector is a vector of areas.


Optional commands:

type line|boundary
Draw boundaries of a vector of areas or lines of a vector of lines (default line).
line
Block line. Normal line.
hline
Block line. Highlight line.
offset (dimen)
Works with hline to offset from the center of line.
rgbcol (column.1 [column.2])
Dynamic line color in a column.1 of the database, or conditional color from rules applied to column.2 of the database.
setnorule (text)
Label in legend when default values and setcolor rules.
setrule (n1-n2[:color] text)
Make a item of a sublegend with text as label and title the text of the label. Also, the color of the normal line with column >= n1 and column < n2 (column from rgbcol), is set to color.

vpoints

Draw points on the map.
The points always are drawn last, after vareas and vlines.


vpoints (vector)

vector is a vector of points, except when type is centroid or boundary that it is a vector of areas, or when type is line that it is a vector of lines.


The next commands are optionals:

type centroid|line|boundary|point
Type of draw (default point).
symbol (epsfile)
Symbol to use (default: basic/circle).
line
Block line. Type of line in the symbol.
fcolor (color)
Static fillcolor of the symbol.
offset (dimen)
Offset of the symbol.
rotate (number|column)
Angle to rotate the symbol, static number or dynamic in a column of the database.
size (number|column [number])
Size of the symbol take from number or from a column of the database. In the last option, there is a optional number to define the static size of the symbol in the legend when the size of symbols are dynamic.
scale (dimen.1 [dimen.2])
Rescale the size of the symbol by the dimen.1 and, optionally, add a dimen.2. i.e., resize = dimen.1 * size + dimen.2.
setsize (n1-n2[:size] text)
Variable size of symbols from data in column of database set in size.

Special commands when type is line:

dist (dimen)
Define the distance in paper between symbol over the line.
cline
Block line. Type of line that connect symbols.


vlabels

in progress


vlabels none|(vector)


font
labelcol (column)
decimals (number)
circled yes|no
setrule (n1-n2 text)


Legend of the maps

rlegend

Legend of the raster map.
The units meters in the gradient legend is set with r.support.


rlegend [text]
Text is the title of the legend.
raster (raster)
the raster map to take the data of legend.


The next commads are optionals:

titlefont
Block font for the legend header.
font
Block font for the normal text.
frame
Block frame.
swidth (dimen)
Width of the symbol area.

For category legends

cols (number) [(number)]
Number of columns with symbols and separation between columns (default 1).
interline (dimen)
Vertical space between symbols (o to join symbols)
nodata yes|no
Remove category no data.
order (n1,n2,...)
To reorder the items.

For gradient legends

height (dimen), width (dimen)
Dimension of the frame with the legend.
vertical yes|no
Orientation of the gradient legend (default no).
range (n1 n2)
Manual set of the data range for legend.
gradient yes|no
Forze draw gradient legend with category data.
tick (dimen)
Length of the ticks.
whiteframe (dimen)
Width of the white frame around the bar color.

vlegend

Legend of the vector maps.


vlegend [text]
Optional the title or head of the legend.


The next commands are optionals:

title
Block font for title of legend.
font
Block font for normal text of legend.
frame
cols (number.1 [number.2])
Distribution of the items in number.1 cols. Optionaly, number.2 of span between columns.
swidth (dimen)
Symbol width.
interline (dimen)
Space between lines.


Conversion to PDF

You can obtain good results with these settings:

 ps2pdf14 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dEmbedAllFonts=true map.ps map.pdf

Example for ps.output control script

This is the content of a ps.output control file:

paper A4
 landscape y
end
maparea
 height 12cm
 border .8mm
 color grey
end

grid
 major 100000
  width .1mm
  color white
 end
 minor 50000
  width .1mm
  color white
  style 1
 end
 font
  name Univers
  size 6
  extend 1.2
  color black
 end
 fcolor black
 format +out
 trim 3
end

raster ortho.r ortho.g ortho.b
end