Puneet Kishor wrote:
A long time ago, another life, another place, I used a product called Mapublisher made by a Canadian company called Avenza. A plugin for Adobe Illustrator, t allowed me to import shapefiles into Illustrator and create nice looking posters/graphics, basically bypass the limitations of Arcview or of cutting and pasting bitmaps. Slick idea, it was.
It's relatively trivial to use Perl, the Geo::ShapeFile module, and your projection of choice to write a 30-line script that eats shapefiles and spews out "legacy" Illustrator files (i.e. the PostScript-based text format, not the modern PDF binary format).
I've no experience of Inkscape, but if it can read either a text format or one for which a CPAN module exists, I guess it might be equally easy.
cheers Richard _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
