Re: GMT output Format

Remko Scharroo <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gis.gmt.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
A solution to you “I/O problem” is to write all the temporary files, including the PS file to a “virtual disk” (remember those?).
If you make sure that GMT_TMPDIR is on a virtual disk and you run everything in your script like this

. gmt_shell_functions.sh

gmt_init_tmpdir

ps=$GMT_TMPDIR/output.ps

step1 -K > $ps
step2 -O -K >> $ps
stepn -O >> $ps

ps2raster -Tg -A -P -E300 -D$GMT_TMPDIR $ps
mv $GMT_TMPDIR/*.png .

gmt_remove_tmpdir

Then you have no disk I/O caused by intermediate files.

Remko

On 21 Jan 2014, at 01:41, J.J. Green <[email protected]> wrote:

> Mark,
> 
> > OK, but do I have to write a PS file, first, then convert, then read in
> > the raster in order to display it?  I'm just looking for the most
> > efficient means to display a jpeg or png in my app without costly disk
> > I/O...
> 
> Disk I/O is small beer compared to the cost of rasterisation.  Not much
> you can do about that (except to wait for Moore to take away the pain)
> I think.
> 
> Jim
> --
> J.J. Green,  Seaview Sensing Ltd.,
> http://seaviewsensing.com
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