Hi all, a look here might also be useful:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Current_PDF_Support Best Kai silvio grosso schrieb: > Hi Simon, > > First of all THANKS a lot very much for all the testing you are doing on > gvSIG 1.9 :-) > >> Simon Cropper wrote: >> For those people interested, I am currently preparing a >> tutorial that will eventually be posted on my website > > Having good tutorials in English for gvSIG 1.9 is really, really important. > I am totally sure many users are looking for them right now. > Consequently, keep them coming :-) > > Maybe, in the end, some power-user will write a book in English about gvSIG > 1.9. > Something like the book "Getting to know ArcGIS" and like. > Having such a book, for sale, e.g. on Amazon, will prove really useful for > spreading gvSIG furthermore. > Needless to say, it could be useful for the writer bank's account as well ;-) > >> Anyone who knows of a program with comparable functionality >> that can run >> on either of these systems please let me know > > I don't know if you already know it but I could suggest you a good software > for exporting pdf file to jpeg. > It runs on Windows. > Its name is: Pdf-Xchange viewer and it is freeware (not open-source, though). > Its webpage is: > http://www.docu-track.com/home/prod_user/PDF-XChange_Tools/pdfx_viewer > There is even the portable version for Windows (no privilege as administrator > required to install it). > The link to get the portable version is: > http://www.docu-track.com/downloads/users/ > As regards Linux, I run without major problems, the commercial version (which > allow to crop your pdf, delete its pages, export some pages etc). > This through Wine, on Ubuntu Karmic. > You can use Pdf-Xchange viewer, at work, even for commercial use. > > With such a software you can export the gvSIG Map PDF as image (e.g. as jpeg, > tiff, png etc, etc). > Pdf-xchange viewer (portable or not), in my view, is much powerful than > Acrobat reader (the freeware version). > This in that it allows you, for instance, to draw arrows, circles, squares on > your Pdf Map. > You can write some text; you can highlight it, underline it and so forth. > Its main advantage is that is is easy to use (no "geek" knowledge is > required). > As I have explained, it is free (even though not open-source, unfortunately!) > > Best regards and thanks again for your upcoming tutorials > > Silvio > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gvsig_internacional mailing list > [email protected] > http://listserv.gva.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gvsig_internacional _______________________________________________ Gvsig_internacional mailing list [email protected] http://listserv.gva.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gvsig_internacional
