Drawing rectangles

Hello,

When trying to plot (fig.plot()) rectangles, basically nothing happens…^^ Following code – with squres – works:

fig = pygmt.Figure()
fig.coast(region=[0, 26, 44, 62], projection='S13/90/6i', frame="ag", shorelines="0.3p,black", borders="1/0.5p,black")
fig.plot(10, 50, style='s1')
fig.show()

This should do the exact same thing, shouldn’t it?:

fig = pygmt.Figure()
fig.coast(region=[0, 26, 44, 62], projection='S13/90/6i', frame="ag", shorelines="0.3p,black", borders="1/0.5p,black")
fig.plot(10, 50, style='r1/1')
fig.show()

Problem: No rectangle is drawn. Alterations fomo the style command like ‘r1’, ‘r1,1’, ‘r1c’, ‘r1c/1c’ etc. neither work.

Problem 2: Substituting r by R for a rounded rectangle produces an error:

Module 'psconvert' failed with status code 78:
psconvert [ERROR]: System call [gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=bbox -DPSL_no_pagefill -dMaxBitmap=2147483647 -dUseFastColor=true '/home/schroeder/.gmt/sessions/gmt6.20169/gmt_124.ps-' 2> '/home/schroeder/.gmt/sessions/gmt6.20169/psconvert_20169c.bb'] returned error 256.

I’m not sure whether this is actually a bug or just my own lack of knowledge.

Thanks in advance, Stefan

[weiji14]

Perhaps add a new gallery example to mention the style='r1/2' way of drawing rectangles? Then we can close this issue.

Could I help with this example?

Yes please, go for it! I’ll assign this issue to you @core-man.

[weiji14]

Would it be possible to use a label for these types of issues (i.e., upstream problems that are solved but require an update to the minimum required GMT version)? In reading through PyGMT issues, it appears there are at least a couple of this type of issue currently open. I think a tag would help for keeping track and quickly identifying which issues do not require any action.

Yeah there are quite a few of these. I think labeling it ‘upstream’ and adding it to the v0.4.0 milestone should suffice, but feel free to suggest a new label.