On Thursday 17 January 2008 11:10:39 am Kurt Heston wrote: > Dylan, > > Will do. Is there a specific feature I should look for that solves my > specific problem? > > --K
Kurt- Well, I would take a look at all of the vector (path) tools available in Inkscape. I have not used to to work with much GIS data, but I do know that it can import PDF data as vector (path) primitives. Feel free to post your findings back to the list. Cheers, Dylan > > Dylan Beaudette wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > grass-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user -- 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
