Map display: saving image with scale and legend

[helena]

when saving image from map display that includes scale and legend, everything is saved correctly when the default setting is used, but when a template (pre-set image size) is used scale and legend either is not included ​http://skagit.meas.ncsu.edu/~helena/grasswork/saveimg_test4.png ​http://skagit.meas.ncsu.edu/~helena/grasswork/saveimg_test5.png or it is not scaled properly. See also ​http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2011-November/062601.html

Helena

[hamish]

Replying to helena:

or it is not scaled properly.

fwiw,

barscale and legend on the display monitors are rendered using a fixed number of pixels for height etc. They aren't designed to scale, they're designed to be seen on a screen at the present resolution. try also d.out.file with a command prompt driven Xmon.

for hardcopy output which scales well for posters or journal figures use ps.map/try out the new Cartographic Composer; for web graphics and screenshots I usually use xwd or the GIMP's screenshot tool.

Ideally the wxGUI would add legend and barscale commands into the layer tree; you can get them to survive the export to a graphics file if you add them manually there as command layers (hidden in the Add grid of vector labels overlay drop down icon menu [any ideas on what to rename that tooltip?]).

the current wxgui slippy overlay method always seemed a bit odd to me. (but it mostly works)

Hamish

[annakrat]

The decorations were rerendered (with the given size) but they weren't used. Try r50721 in trunk, also backported to 6.5

[annakrat]

The change is in all branches and seems to work.