On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 02:04:50AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > Glynn pisze: > > > > > The usual tool for interactively editing PostScript files is > > > Illustrator. > > Maciek: > > FTR, Corel Draw worked for me too when I used Windows. > > > > BTW - anybody knows of good Open Source alternatives for > > editing (*real* editing, alike Illustrator or Corel Draw) PS or PDF > > under GNU/Linux? > > How about Inkscape or Scribus? > http://www.inkscape.org/ > http://www.scribus.net/
Both of these are cool programs, and if one could get ps.map's output into them they'd be great choices for tweaking map presentation. But neither is actually able to import a PDF (or even PostScript) map for editing. Scribus can import a PDF of text and allow you to edit it. It can't do much with the graphics, though. Inkscape can do a great deal with the graphics if you can get the data imported. But it can't read PDFs or postscript directly. Inkscape has some script that tries to use ghostscript to convert the document to an Adobe Illustrator document and then import that, but every time I've tried it it fails. As far as I could tell, it was because the ghostscript ps-to-ai deal didn't work properly on ps.map's generated postscript. Have you actually had success with either of these programs? I would *LOVE* not to have to use Illustrator (which I don't even have --- when I need this capability I have to transfer PDF versions of my maps to my girlfriend's computer, which *does* have Adobe CS). -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." -- R. Bach _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
