<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">What about having a module for reading pdf maps such as r.in.pdf or v.in.pdf<br><br><div> </div>Regards,<br> Rashad<div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Mohammed Rashad <rashadkm@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org; grass-user@lists.osgeo.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sun, June 6, 2010 1:03:25 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [GRASS-user] pdf
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<br>Mohammed Rashad wrote:<br><br>> Is there any module in grass to read maps which are in PDF format to raster or vector.<br>> ArcGIS can read pdf files as raster maps. may i know the module is available in GRASS or GRASS-Addons repo.<br><br>Ghostscript can generate SVG output. I don't know of any tool to<br>import SVG directly, but Inkscape can convert SVG to DXF, which OGR<br>can handle. However, I don't know how much information will be lost in<br>the conversion.<br><br>Generating rasters is more straightfoward; Ghostscript can generate a<br>large number of raster formats, many of which can be imported using<br>e.g. <a target="_blank" href="http://r.in.gd">r.in</a>.gdal.<br><br>-- <br>Glynn Clements <<a ymailto="mailto:glynn@gclements.plus.com" href="mailto:glynn@gclements.plus.com">glynn@gclements.plus.com</a>><br></div></div>
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