Kurt,
I now have a pdf map from which I want to pull some vector data and
use in a GIS. I am curious to hear about your workflow with this
process. For me, I ran the command below and got a single-layer dxf
file that does not seem to be amenable to useful work in a GIS
environment. Would you mind sharing some details about how you work
through the pdf to vector data process beyond getting the dxf file?
Thanks,
John
On Jan 19, 2008, at 9:42 PM, Kurt Heston wrote:
John,
Excellent! Works flawlessly. Just a little experimenting yielded
this command:
pstoedit.exe -f dxf_s:-splineaspolyline roads.pdf roads.dxf
Without the "-splineaspolyline" argument the DXF looks just like the
other conversions that didn't work.
I now have a solution with the right licensing model. Thanks for
the suggestion!
--Kurt
John C. Tull wrote:
I found this with a search of freshmeat.net. Perhaps it will work,
and free. Let us know.
http://www.pstoedit.net/
Cheers,
John
On Jan 19, 2008, at 6:43 PM, Kurt Heston wrote:
Paul,
That tool works GREAT! I tried it, half expecting it to simply
discard what it couldn't convert like all of the open-source tools
I'd found prior, but it worked...and well. All of the objects the
PDF had to offer came right over.
Interestingly, Illustrator complains before it opens the DXFs the
tool produces, but Grass is delighted with them. My guess is the
AideCad people are formatting the DXF using an older standard.
Part of what I'm doing with the GIS project I'm working on is
trying to convince my client that OS is the way to go (they are a
non-profit). Having to buy a product to do this part of the data
conversion with a non-GPL app doesn't help with that part of
things. However, it's great to have something that works.
Thanks for the suggestion!
--Kurt
_______________________________________________
grass-user mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
_______________________________________________
grass-user mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
_______________________________________________
grass-user mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
