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 15:29
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Vertor PDF as data source for mapserver
To: afreed at pdx.edu

I've tried some tools which convert PDF to DXF and from DXF to ESRI
Shapefile.
But during conversion, some information is lost.
So the results are not really useful to me.

Someone told me that mapserver supports DXF as input, but I haven't managed
to make it work yet.

Mapper


2007/3/8, Andy Freed <afreed at pdx.edu>:
>
> Did you ever get an answer about this - I was curious as well. I wonder
> if SVG allows for a wolrd file, or if converting a PDF to a series of
> DWG files in Illustrator then spatially referencing them would work.
>
> Andy
>
> a mapper 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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