How about using Grass Plugin in QGIS to load your vectors and create legend there? Not sure how it ties up with your python script.
Cheers Saber On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 11:39 +0200, Martin Album Ytre-Eide wrote: > Hello! > > I am looking for a way to make a legend to some vector area maps. The maps > contain four different types of areas and are given different names. > > I have made a python script running d.mon, d.vect etc. with the png driver > producing about 14 png files, which then is used to create a gif file. > > A way to create a vector legend is to do v.to.rast and use the d.legend from > the "dummy" rast - however, I don't see how you can get a legend with text in > this way? I don't think you can since raster should have numerical values. > You could make a legend without category numbers and try to add the text with > d.text, but I don't know if that's a good way of doing things. > > Then there is ps.map which solves this in a nice way - the problem is - I > would like to keep the png format. I could just make the legend with ps.map - > and add it to my png files with some image tools in python, but I am unsure > of the result is worth the effort. > > > Any other ideas to do this? > > Thanks > > Martin Ytre-Eide > _______________________________________________ > grass-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
