On Wednesday 16 January 2008 11:22:02 pm Kurt Heston wrote: > I have a TON of vector drawings available to me in PDF format that I'm > georeferencing. So far, I'm doing it by converting them to PNGs and > using r.to.vect to massage them. This is really tedious and the data > isn't as clean as a straight vector conversion would be. In > Illustrator, I can see that all the vector math is there. That is, the > PDF isn't simply a wrapper around raster data. > > I've tried opening the PDFs in Illustrator and exporting them as DXFs, > but Grass ignores a lot of the data when I do this...they look very > different in Grass once imported. I can export them as SVG from > Illustrator, but surprisingly, there doesn't appear to be a single > open-source tool available out there that converts SVG into some > mainstream GIS file format. > > Does anyone have experience doing this type of conversion? Pointers > welcome. > _______________________________________________
Check out Inkscape. Dylan -- Dylan Beaudette Soil Resource Laboratory http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/ University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
