Hello Nikos, Not sure to understand your issue, so my answer might be off-target :
perhaps you can have a look at the output ps file. If it's only a matter of display order, you can rearrange successive instructions within the file in order to have your background laying over the border. V. Le lundi 11 mars 2013 à 15:18 +0200, Nikos Alexandris a écrit : > Hi Moritz :-) > > It doesn't work for me :-(. > > Nikos A: > > > In ps.map, > > > > is it (not) possible to overlay a color-filled rectangle, which exceeds > > > the map frame/border, and by doing so, it should be on top of the border? > > That is "my English is pretty bad :-/" because I mean(t) that the rectangle > crosses the map's border. > > > > Currently, no matter what I try, the map border is drawn on top of the > > > rectangle (within which I have placed a color table/legend). > > > > > > The colortable does not feature a background option (according to the > > > manual -- blindly tested as well)!? > > > > > > Is there a trick to overcome this problem? (--yes, I want to break the > > > convention of being inside the map frame) > > Moritz L: > > AFAIK, just give the rectangle map coordinates that are outside the map > > frame. Ex: > > > raster elevation@PERMANENT > > rectangle 637375 211190 643918 207236 > > note, the manual states: > rectangle east north east north -- typo? > > > color black > > fcolor red > > width 2.0 > > end > > > > with r.info -g elevation: > > > > north=228500 > > south=215000 > > east=645000 > > west=630000 > > So, that means that it is: > rectangle west north east south? > > What about the following: > > did you try to place a box that is 1/3 inside the map-frame and 2/3 outside? > The map border is drawn on top of the rectangle. > > The case here is that the class labels are too long to fit outside of the map- > frame. Squeezing the colortable outside will make them hard to read. > Shrinking the map-frame is not an option -- the map is anyway kind of an > overview map -- lots of details will be lost. > > Best, N > _______________________________________________ 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
