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

[Kurt Heston]

Grass 6.2 appears to be even less agreeable to the DXF format that 
Inkscape writes than it was to the one Illustrator did.  I'm still 
playing with it, but no luck yet.

Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> On Thursday 17 January 2008 11:10:39 am Kurt Heston wrote:
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>> Dylan,
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>> Will do.  Is there a specific feature I should look for that solves my
>> specific problem?
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>> --K
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> Kurt-
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> 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.
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> Feel free to post your findings back to the list.
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> Cheers,
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> Dylan
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>> Dylan Beaudette wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Dylan
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