Anna wrote: > I would like to add north arrow to map composer > (as eps instruction). > Where should the images be placed? In > ps/ps.map/decorations/, there > are some related images (compass_... .eps) so what > about ps/ps.map/decorations/north_arrows/ ?
since there there are not many decoration files in ps/ps.map/decorations/ I would put them there. Once there was >12 eps files or so there I would consider to split things up (the platoon rule), but as there are only 3 (and the rate of new ones has been nil) I'd consider splitting it up into a bunch of sub- directories to be premature and just making it overly complex for no benefit. Depending on the graphical complexity, also consider adding them as grass symbols, so that they could be used seamlessly both by the regular GUI map window and the ps.map composer. (and a much wider audience) there are already 2 north arrows, 2 compasses, and 4 other generic arrows as grass symbols: http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/IconSymbols A long standing todo is to allow d.graph to read in SVG files, so that we can e.g. reuse and contribute to a central osgeo collection for symbols, along with qgis, etc. I translated qgis's fish symbol to a grass one by converting the original Bézier curve definitions to x,y coords by hand, but really a first step would be to allow those to be converted on the fly. Complicated ones like Jorge's compass_exterior.eps and interior are best done in EPS of course. (I'd still like to see a half-arrow-left (\harpoonleft) pointing north added onto those 2 eps files: /| / | | | | alternately, an svg2gsym or similar tool to convert symbol formats back and forth could make things much more interesting. see also other collections: http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/IconSymbols#North_Arrows svg -> eps can be done directly from the command line with inkscape, btw. regards, Hamish _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
