# PostScript file creation on GMT6
**URL:** https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/postscript-file-creation-on-gmt6/933
**Category:** Q&A
**Created:** [October 7, 2020, 12:19pm UTC](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/postscript-file-creation-on-gmt6/933 "2020-10-07T12:19:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@ggab](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/u/ggab)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2020, 12:19pm UTC](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/postscript-file-creation-on-gmt6/933/1 "2020-10-07T12:19:27Z")
Hello everyone,
I am using GMT 6.1.0 and I don’t know how to create my “ps” file in the right directory.
Let me explain.
I am a script with the line command : “gmt begin MyPlot X D/MyDirectory”
if X format is pdf, png, jpg, It’s OK. The file MyPlot.X is created in the good directory.
If X is “ps”, the file is created in the directory of the script execution.
Thank for your help,
Regards
Germinal
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### Author:  [@MarceloBanik](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/u/MarceloBanik)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2020, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/postscript-file-creation-on-gmt6/933/2 "2020-10-07T13:27:27Z")
using the following commands on Linux:
> #!/bin/bash
> for X in pdf png jpg ps; do
> gmt begin $PWD/D/MyDirectory/MyPlot $X
> gmt basemap -R0/2/0/2 -Jx5c -Ba0.5
> gmt end
> done
The MyPlot.ps is created in the current directory, both to GMT 6.2.0 and 6.1.0
Should open an issue in the GitHub?
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### Author:  [@ggab](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/u/ggab)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2020, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/postscript-file-creation-on-gmt6/933/3 "2020-10-07T15:22:04Z")
Hello MarceloBanik,
Thank for the response but I have not the same thing.
I am in the D1 directory witch contain a TEST2 directory with the csh1 script below:
#!/bin/bash
gmt begin $PWD/TEST2/MyPlot pdf
gmt basemap -R0/2/0/2 -Jx5c -Ba0.5
gmt end
gmt begin $PWD/TEST2/MyPlot jpg
gmt basemap -R0/2/0/2 -Jx5c -Ba0.5
gmt end
gmt begin $PWD/TEST2/MyPlot ps
gmt basemap -R0/2/0/2 -Jx5c -Ba0.5
gmt end
If I launch this script : csh TEST/csh1
MyPlot.jpg and MyPlot.pdf are created in the good directory ($PWD/TEST2)
MyPlot.ps is created in $PWD
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### Author:  [@MarceloBanik](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/u/MarceloBanik)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2020, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/postscript-file-creation-on-gmt6/933/4 "2020-10-07T15:36:22Z")
as current directory == $PWD, then we have the same results, and I thing it is a bug.
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### Author:  [@MarceloBanik](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/u/MarceloBanik)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/postscript-file-creation-on-gmt6/933/5 "2020-10-07T20:10:13Z")
running with option -Vd, I noted that when it is ps, it says:
> psconvert [DEBUG]: Copying /home/marcelo/.gmt/sessions/gmt\_session.139980/psconvert\_139983d.eps → MyPlot.ps
when it is pdf, it says:
> psconvert [DEBUG]: Running:
> gs -q … -sOutputFile=‘/home/marcelo/gmt/forum/tmp/D/MyDirectory/MyPlot.pdf’ …
So appears that the problem is in the psconvert module.
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### Author:  [@MarceloBanik](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/u/MarceloBanik)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2020, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/postscript-file-creation-on-gmt6/933/6 "2020-10-07T20:57:11Z")
appears that, at least for the simple test I posted here, the following patch solve this issue.[fix\_ps\_path.zip](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/uploads/short-url/1KUl3hkw52DvOLJNHGALyKV1QVP.zip) (841 Bytes)
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### Author:  [@Joaquim](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/u/Joaquim)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/postscript-file-creation-on-gmt6/933/7 "2020-10-07T21:40:27Z")
@MarceloBanik, maybe a PR please?
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### Author:  [@MarceloBanik](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/u/MarceloBanik)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2020, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/postscript-file-creation-on-gmt6/933/8 "2020-10-07T23:09:15Z")
I hope I did it correctly:
save the PS file including the path
#4298 opened 2 minutes ago by MarceloBanik
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### Author:  [@ggab](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/u/ggab)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2020, 3:56pm UTC](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/postscript-file-creation-on-gmt6/933/9 "2020-10-13T15:56:17Z")
Hello,
Sorry for the delay !
Thanks for the solution but now, with the GMT5 version and later, I don’t knows where are the sources and how do to include your patch ?
Regards
Germinal
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### Author:  [@MarceloBanik](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/u/MarceloBanik)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/postscript-file-creation-on-gmt6/933/10 "2020-10-13T17:06:41Z")
as the correction has already been done in the source code, I think the easiest way is to install from it. See:
[https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/gmt/blob/master/BUILDING.md](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/gmt/blob/master/BUILDING.md)