<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">a mapper</b> <<a href="mailto:mapper75@googlemail.com">mapper75@googlemail.com</a>><br>Date: 12.03.2007 15:29
<br>Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Vertor PDF as data source for mapserver<br>To: <a href="mailto:afreed@pdx.edu">afreed@pdx.edu</a><br><br></span>I've tried some tools which convert PDF to DXF and from DXF to ESRI Shapefile.
<br>But during conversion, some information is lost.<br>So the results are not really useful to me.<br><br>Someone told me that mapserver supports DXF as input, but I haven't managed to make it work yet.
<br><br>Mapper<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/3/8, Andy Freed <<a href="mailto:afreed@pdx.edu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">afreed@pdx.edu</a>>:</span><div>
<span class="e" id="q_111468ddd411d4e3_1"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Did you ever get an answer about this - I was curious as well. I wonder<br>if SVG allows for a wolrd file, or if converting a PDF to a series of<br>DWG files in Illustrator then spatially referencing them would work.<br>
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Andy<br><br>a mapper wrote:<br>> Hello,<br>><br>> I have some PDFs containing maps in vector format.<br>> Is there any possibility to use those as a datasource for mapserver<br>> (like, for example, ESRI shapefiles?) without creating any raster image
<br>> (like TIFF)?<br>> I want to keep the vector format because of the quality loss when<br>> scaling a raster image.<br>><br>> Is it possible to use multiple raster images for the same map for the<br>> different zoom levels the user can display?
<br>><br>> Thank you for your help.<br>><br>> Mapper<br>><br></blockquote></span></div></div><br>