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

[Kurt Heston]

John,

Excellent!  Works flawlessly.  Just a little experimenting yielded this 
command:

pstoedit.exe -f dxf_s:-splineaspolyline roads.pdf roads.dxf

Without the "-splineaspolyline" argument the DXF looks just like the 
other conversions that didn't work.

I now have a solution with the right licensing model.  Thanks for the 
suggestion!

--Kurt


John C. Tull wrote:
> I found this with a search of freshmeat.net. Perhaps it will work, and 
> free. Let us know.
> http://www.pstoedit.net/
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
> On Jan 19, 2008, at 6:43 PM, Kurt Heston wrote:
>
>> Paul,
>>
>> That tool works GREAT!  I tried it, half expecting it to simply 
>> discard what it couldn't convert like all of the open-source tools 
>> I'd found prior, but it worked...and well.  All of the objects the 
>> PDF had to offer came right over.
>>
>> Interestingly, Illustrator complains before it opens the DXFs the 
>> tool produces, but Grass is delighted with them.  My guess is the 
>> AideCad people are formatting the DXF using an older standard.
>>
>> Part of what I'm doing with the GIS project I'm working on is trying 
>> to convince my client that OS is the way to go (they are a 
>> non-profit).  Having to buy a product to do this part of the data 
>> conversion with a non-GPL app doesn't help with that part of things.  
>> However, it's great to have something that works.
>> Thanks for the suggestion!
>>
>> --Kurt
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