[GRASS-user] Getting vectors from postscript files

[Richard Chirgwin]

Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Richard Chirgwin
> <rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>   
>> I have a large and layered PDF map which I'd like to get into Grass-GIS,
>> preferably without tracing the vectors by hand - there are hundreds!
>>
>> I've been looking at various ways to extract the vectors - in particular
>> using tools like pdf2ps, pstoedit and fig2dev - to try and get the data into
>> some kind of usable format. However, the best I can seem to do is to get an
>> SVG (scalable vector graphics) file that contains the relevant vectors.
>>
>> Is there a tool that will let me import vectors from either PDF, PS, or SVG
>> into Grass-GIS?
>>     
>
> In the past I had some success with pstoedit:
>
> http://www.pstoedit.net/pstoedit/
>
> pstoedit -f dxf mapfile.eps mapfile.dxf
>
> Fails for you? Possibly (don't remember), I used ps2eps (written by
> Roland Bless [1])
> to generate EPS from PS first.
>
> Markus
>
> [1] http://www.tm.uka.de/~bless/ps2eps
>
>   
Markus - Thanks! Works brilliantly ... now I just have to work out how 
to just get the vectors I want, and life is going to be good ...

Cheers,
Richard Chirgwin