About:
PP3 creates celestial charts. It generates resolution-independent maps of very high graphical quality. They can be used, for example, as illustrations in books or on Web pages. It is possible to change many parameters, and arbitrary text can be placed on the maps. The output formats are EPS or PDF.

Author:
Torsten Bronger [contact developer]

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Homepage:
http://pp3.sourceforge.net
Tar/BZ2:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pp3/pp3-1.3.2.tar.bz2?download
RPM package:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pp3/pp3-1.3.2-1tb.i386.rpm?download
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=71469
Mailing list archive:
http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=71469
Demo site:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: MIT/X Consortium License
[Operating System]		OS Independent, POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		C++
[Topic]		Education, Multimedia :: Graphics :: Presentation, Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy

Dependencies: [change]
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 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.3.2-man	21-Dec-2003	MIT/X Consortium License

 Comments

[»] Can't get charts to work.
by EscapeGoat - Feb 26th 2004 11:45:48

Although the large pdf manual is impressive, I can't get it to work. I really want to generate some maps or I wouldn't bother posting this.
example:
If I cd into the examples directory where all the .pp3 files are and run:
"pp3 orion.pp3"
it does create a orion.eps file
However it looks nothing like the example of that is displayed in the manual other than it is Orion.
My map has a white background. Not blue
My map has some stars and constellations named
My map shows only about 1/3 of the area that the doc shows.
My map shows far less stars.
Example II:

"You can override these defaults step by step. Let's do so: Write
# Cygnus, the Swan
filename output swan.tex
switch pdf_output on
set center_rectascension 19.95
set center_declination 40.8
to the file `swan.pp3' and call
pp3 swan.pp3

By following the above commands exactly:

[root@localhost examples]# # Cygnus, the Swan
[root@localhost examples]# filename output swan.tex
bash: filename: command not found
[root@localhost examples]# switch pdf_output on
bash: switch: command not found
[root@localhost examples]# set center_rectascension 19.95
[root@localhost examples]# set center_declination 40.8
[root@localhost examples]# pp3 swan.pp3
pp3: Input script file swan.pp3 not found.

Am I doing it wrong? I guess so.
Am I following the manual instructions verbatim?
I believe I am.

So what gives?
What am I missing or what are you missing?

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