[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS-user] pdf maps

Glynn Clements glynn at gclements.plus.com
Sun Jun 6 03:33:25 EDT 2010


Mohammed Rashad wrote:

> Is there any module in grass to read maps which are in PDF format to raster or vector.
> ArcGIS can read pdf files as raster maps. may i know the module is available in GRASS or GRASS-Addons repo.

Ghostscript can generate SVG output. I don't know of any tool to
import SVG directly, but Inkscape can convert SVG to DXF, which OGR
can handle. However, I don't know how much information will be lost in
the conversion.

Generating rasters is more straightfoward; Ghostscript can generate a
large number of raster formats, many of which can be imported using
e.g. r.in.gdal.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
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