[GRASS-user] Vector drawings in PDF -> converting them

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Wednesday 16 January 2008 11:22:02 pm Kurt Heston wrote:
> I have a TON of vector drawings available to me in PDF format that I'm
> georeferencing.  So far, I'm doing it by converting them to PNGs and
> using r.to.vect to massage them.  This is really tedious and the data
> isn't as clean as a straight vector conversion would be.  In
> Illustrator, I can see that all the vector math is there.  That is, the
> PDF isn't simply a wrapper around raster data.
>
> I've tried opening the PDFs in Illustrator and exporting them as DXFs,
> but Grass ignores a lot of the data when I do this...they look very
> different in Grass once imported.  I can export them as SVG from
> Illustrator, but surprisingly, there doesn't appear to be a single
> open-source tool available out there that converts SVG into some
> mainstream GIS file format.
>
> Does anyone have experience doing this type of conversion?  Pointers
> welcome.
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Check out Inkscape.

Dylan




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