Command-line utilities

In the utilities directory there are a few non-trivial programs using HPixLib. They are automatically build and installed with the library, and provide a few useful utilities that can be used e.g. in bash scripts.

map2fig

This utility is compiled only if an useable version of the Cairo library (http://www.cairographics.org) is found at compilation time. It converts a map in FITS format into a figure. It can support the following formats:

• PNG (bitmapped format)
• PostScript and Encapsulated PostScript (EPS, a vector format)
• PDF (Adobe Portable Document Format, a vector format)
• SVG (Scalar Vector Graphics, a vector format)

(Some formats might not be available, depending on settings used in compiling the Cairo library.) Vector formats contain a bitmapped representation of the map, but the text and color bar are vector elements that can be modified by vector drawing programs like e.g. Inkscape (http://inkscape.org).

Run map2fig –help for a list of options.