[GRASS-user] Odd scaling issue with ps.map output and ghostscript ps2pdf

2010-04-26 Thread Tom Russo
On several occasions I've created maps with ps.map at 1:24000 scale, converted to PDF form with ghostscript's "ps2pdf" script, and sent them off to a printer (i.e. paid a shop to print them) only to find that they've come back in 1:25000 scale instead. The first time this happened was after I'd im

Re: [GRASS-user] Odd scaling issue with ps.map output and ghostscript ps2pdf

2010-04-27 Thread Hamish
Tom Russo wrote: > On several occasions I've created > maps with ps.map at 1:24000 scale, converted > to PDF form with ghostscript's "ps2pdf" script, and sent > them off to a printer > (i.e. paid a shop to print them) only to find that they've > come back in > 1:25000 scale instead. The first time

Re: [GRASS-user] Odd scaling issue with ps.map output and ghostscript ps2pdf

2010-04-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Hamish wrote: no idea, but from now on I'll keep an eye out for it. :) perhaps an A4 vs. Letter papersize adjustment? Hamish/Tom: For my most recent project I did not care at what scale the maps were printed as long as the area of interest fit on the page. I noticed tha

Re: [GRASS-user] Odd scaling issue with ps.map output and ghostscript ps2pdf

2010-04-27 Thread Tom Russo
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 04:32:09AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the flavor, containing: > Tom Russo wrote: > > On several occasions I've created > > maps with ps.map at 1:24000 scale, converted > > to PDF form with ghostscript's "ps2pdf" script, and sent > > them off to a pri

Re: [GRASS-user] Odd scaling issue with ps.map output and ghostscript ps2pdf

2010-04-27 Thread Tom Russo
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 06:19:38AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the flavor, containing: > On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Hamish wrote: > > > no idea, but from now on I'll keep an eye out for it. :) perhaps an A4 vs. > > Letter papersize adjustment? > > Hamish/Tom: > >For my most

Re: [GRASS-user] Odd scaling issue with ps.map output and ghostscript ps2pdf

2010-04-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Tom Russo wrote: In this instance I am now completely convinced it's an issue at the print shop, probably because I'm trying to use margins that are too small and they're "helpfully" adjusting the size of the image to fix my mistake so the edges aren't cut off. Tom, It

Re: [GRASS-user] Odd scaling issue with ps.map output and ghostscript ps2pdf

2010-04-27 Thread Tom Russo
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 09:34:07AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the flavor, containing: > On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Tom Russo wrote: > > > In this instance I am now completely convinced it's an issue at the print > > shop, probably because I'm trying to use margins that are too s