	$Id: README.misc,v 1.5 2006/03/22 07:08:53 pwessel Exp $

This directory contains some miscellaneous programs
that may come in handy for some users.

	gmtdigitize - Digitize and project coordinates from dititizer
	gmtstitch - Assemple polygons from line segments
	makepattern - create Sun rasterfiles from patterns
	psmageplot - blow up plots over several pages
	nc2xy - convert 1-D netCDF files to ASCII
	ps2raster - convert PostScript files to raster images

gmtdigitize works with a Calcomp Digiboard III digitizer and will
read coordinates from the selected port and apply inverse map projection
to recover the map coordinates.  Users with other digitizers or users
of an OS other than Linux may have to make changes.

gmtstitch reads one or more files (including multisegment files)
and attempts to connect segments whose endpoints are within a
specified separation threshold.  Useful for connecting digitized
lines back to a complete whole. [P Wessel]

makepattern can read the user's Sun 1-bit raster files or
Sun icon files (of the type used for patterns in GMT3.0)
and colorize it into an 8-bit Sun rasterfile that can be
used for patterns in GMT 3.x (x > 1). [P Wessel]

psmegaplot takes a page-sized PS plot and magnifies it by
tiling. [P Wessel]

nc2xy lists the contents of 1-D netCDF files as columns
in ASCII format. Output is send to standard output. [R Scharroo]

ps2raster will convert GMT (and other) PostScript files to
images in either JPG, TIFF, PNG, or PPM format, or simply
convert the PostScript to a PDF file.  It allows recomputation
of the bounding box to ensure a tight fit. [J Luis]
