[GRASS-user] Vector drawings in PDF -> converting them
Kurt Heston
kheston at hestonsystems.com
Sun Jan 20 00:42:44 EST 2008
John,
Excellent! Works flawlessly. Just a little experimenting yielded this
command:
pstoedit.exe -f dxf_s:-splineaspolyline roads.pdf roads.dxf
Without the "-splineaspolyline" argument the DXF looks just like the
other conversions that didn't work.
I now have a solution with the right licensing model. Thanks for the
suggestion!
--Kurt
John C. Tull wrote:
> I found this with a search of freshmeat.net. Perhaps it will work, and
> free. Let us know.
> http://www.pstoedit.net/
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
> On Jan 19, 2008, at 6:43 PM, Kurt Heston wrote:
>
>> Paul,
>>
>> That tool works GREAT! I tried it, half expecting it to simply
>> discard what it couldn't convert like all of the open-source tools
>> I'd found prior, but it worked...and well. All of the objects the
>> PDF had to offer came right over.
>>
>> Interestingly, Illustrator complains before it opens the DXFs the
>> tool produces, but Grass is delighted with them. My guess is the
>> AideCad people are formatting the DXF using an older standard.
>>
>> Part of what I'm doing with the GIS project I'm working on is trying
>> to convince my client that OS is the way to go (they are a
>> non-profit). Having to buy a product to do this part of the data
>> conversion with a non-GPL app doesn't help with that part of things.
>> However, it's great to have something that works.
>> Thanks for the suggestion!
>>
>> --Kurt
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