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

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Thursday 17 January 2008 11:10:39 am Kurt Heston wrote:
> Dylan,
>
> Will do.  Is there a specific feature I should look for that solves my
> specific problem?
>
> --K

Kurt-

Well, I would take a look at all of the vector (path) tools available in 
Inkscape. I have not used to to work with much GIS data, but I do know that 
it can import PDF data as vector (path) primitives.

Feel free to post your findings back to the list.

Cheers,

Dylan



>
> Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 January 2008 11:22:02 pm Kurt Heston wrote:
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >> _______________________________________________
> >
> > Check out Inkscape.
> >
> > Dylan
>
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Dylan Beaudette
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