<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Has anyonet tried the E00 or Shape file
export options in the MapPublisher plugin for Illustrator as a way
of getting AI data into GRASS? I find that when working with
geo stuff in Illustrator the MapPublisher plugin is an invaluable tool.
I just have not tested the export filters yet.</font>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif"><b>Andrew <selkiesdad@comp10680.potsdam.edu></b></font>
<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Sent by: owner-GRASSLIST@baylor.edu</font>
<p><font size=1 face="sans-serif">06/20/03 03:27 AM</font>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif"> To:
Kurt Springs <ferret_bard@mac.com></font>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif"> Subject:
[GRASSLIST:443] Re: Getting a file from
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Kurt Springs wrote:<br>
> Hi Folks,<br>
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> BTW, thanks for those who helped with my last problem. I couldn't
remember<br>
> the file name.<br>
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> New challenge, and some of you will remember trying to help me with
this<br>
> some months ago. I put it aside then because I had other things
to do. No<br>
> I am back. I have contour lines I've drawn in Adobe Illustrator.
I want to<br>
> move them into GRASS as vectors so I can label the elevations and
start<br>
> using them. This seems to elude me.<br>
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> I tried converting them into .dxf files, but GRASS can't seem to see
it.<br>
> I've tried using Textwrangler to change the line breaks to UNIX. I've
even<br>
> used the program Linebreak for this purpose. I also tried using<br>
> Textwrangler to do a hexdump and converted the file to ascii.<br>
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> One thing I am considering is printing out the contours and trying
to use<br>
> v.digit to trace them. Can I do this with out a digitizing tablet
using an<br>
> optical mouse? I may have to get some transparent film and make
a target to<br>
> tape on it.<br>
> <br>
> Can anyone thing of an easier way of doing it.<br>
> <br>
> Any help or advice will be greatly appreciated.<br>
> <br>
> Thanks.<br>
> <br>
> Kurt<br>
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I try to avoid serious problems with this by cheating. I create a <br>
reference image with a "nice" set of dimensions for importing
into a <br>
program or script that can give me row-major or other ASCII ordering of
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numerical values that I can import with an appropriate header. When this
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is not possible I import it into IDRISI for Windows V 2 and georeference
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it (really simple in lat/lon under IDRISI if I am careful) and then <br>
export an ascii fle I can muck with. For contours I would probably <br>
digitize or "scan and scale" if it was hand-drawn or derived
from <br>
another source.<br>
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For what its worth....<br>
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