Fwd: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Vertor PDF as data source for mapserver

[a mapper]

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From: a mapper <mapper75 at googlemail.com>
Date: 12.03.2007 15:36
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Vertor PDF as data source for mapserver
To: Barend Köbben <kobben at itc.nl>

I've tried some tools which convert PDF  to DXF to ESRI shapefile, but the
results are not really satisfactory, because by converting, some information
is lost.
The maps are created in Adobe Illustrator and the company creating the maps
has provided me an .ai and a dwg file.
But I haven't managed to make the dwg file work as a source of map server.
How do you do this? Do you use OGR? If I run ogrinfo on the dwg file, it
tells me that it can't open it. Maybe, a special driver is needed to open
the dwg file.



2007/3/5, Barend Köbben <kobben at itc.nl>:
>
> You'll need to do one or more conversions, depending on the software you
> have available (eg. a way I use is to load the PDFs in Adobe Illustrator,
> export them from there as AutoCad DWG/DXF and use that as a datasource).
>
> But whatever way, the main problem is the PDF has no georeferencing, ie.
> the
> coordinates in it will be 'paper coordinates'. To have a usefull map,
> you'll
> have to tranlate them to some menaingfull real world coordinates.
>
> __
> Barend Köbben
> International Institute for Geo-information
> Sciences and Earth Observation (ITC)
> PO Box 6, 7500AA Enschede (The Netherlands)
> ph: +31 (0)53 4874253; fax: +31 (0)53 4874335
>
>
> On 05-03-2007 18:36, "a mapper" <mapper75 at GOOGLEMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have some PDFs containing maps in vector format.
> > Is there any possibility to use those as a datasource for mapserver
> (like,
> > for example, ESRI shapefiles?) without creating any raster image (like
> > TIFF)?
> > I want to keep the vector format because of the quality loss when
> scaling a
> > raster image.
> >
> > Is it possible to use multiple raster images for the same map for the
> > different zoom levels the user can display?
> >
> > Thank you for your help.
> >
> > Mapper
>
>
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