[Freegis-list] map printing

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 10:10:25AM +0100, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
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> Hi all.
> We came across an apparently simple problem, for wich we cannot find a 
> reasonable solution.
> We have a series of raster maps (tiff and jpeg, respectively as background 
> maps and ortophoto) and various vectorial layers. With ArcView, these maps 
> were small and easy to print. Importing them to GRASS resulted in an enormous 
> size (even the black/white tiff are taken as 8 bit), which is a problem by 
> itself;

Just curious: did you use 'r.out.tiff'?

Note that the default compression is none.
compression   TIFF file compression
                options: none,packbit,deflate
                default: none

If you set this parameter (eg to deflate), you will get smaller
files.

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Then you could use 'Skencil' to draw the map:
 http://sketch.sourceforge.net/

(get the GeoObject extension, Add-Ons section).


Markus Neteler