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

[Kurt Heston]

Dylan,

Will do.  Is there a specific feature I should look for that solves my 
specific problem?

--K

Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 January 2008 11:22:02 pm Kurt Heston wrote:
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>> I have a TON of vector drawings available to me in PDF format that I'm
>> georeferencing.  So far, I'm doing it by converting them to PNGs and
>> using r.to.vect to massage them.  This is really tedious and the data
>> isn't as clean as a straight vector conversion would be.  In
>> Illustrator, I can see that all the vector math is there.  That is, the
>> PDF isn't simply a wrapper around raster data.
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>> I've tried opening the PDFs in Illustrator and exporting them as DXFs,
>> but Grass ignores a lot of the data when I do this...they look very
>> different in Grass once imported.  I can export them as SVG from
>> Illustrator, but surprisingly, there doesn't appear to be a single
>> open-source tool available out there that converts SVG into some
>> mainstream GIS file format.
>>
>> Does anyone have experience doing this type of conversion?  Pointers
>> welcome.
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> Check out Inkscape.
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