[GRASS-user] pdf maps

[Mohammed Rashad]

What about having a module for reading pdf maps such as r.in.pdf or v.in.pdf


 Regards,
Rashad




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From: Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
To: Mohammed Rashad <rashadkm at yahoo.com>
Cc: grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org; grass-user at lists.osgeo.org
Sent: Sun, June 6, 2010 1:03:25 PM
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] pdf maps


Mohammed Rashad wrote:

> Is there any module in grass to read maps which are in PDF format to raster or vector.
> ArcGIS can read pdf files as raster maps. may i know the module is available in GRASS or GRASS-Addons repo.

Ghostscript can generate SVG output. I don't know of any tool to
import SVG directly, but Inkscape can convert SVG to DXF, which OGR
can handle. However, I don't know how much information will be lost in
the conversion.

Generating rasters is more straightfoward; Ghostscript can generate a
large number of raster formats, many of which can be imported using
e.g. r.in.gdal.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>



      
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