Hi, > Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 06:37:43 -0700 (PDT) > From: mayeulk <[email protected]> > Subject: [Qgis-developer] Re: MXD > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hi Barry and Stephan, > Any news about extracting data from mxd ? > > Building on your "strings -e l" I am able to extract list of shapefiles from > mxd but I wonder how to expand this to the other layer types in an mxd, of > if by now there are OS tools to do this. > > My current, limited code is: > grep -A 2 "Shapefile Feature Class" foo.mxd | sed -e ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/\t/g' > -e 's/\t--\t/\n/g' | sed -e '/^Shapefile Feature Class\tShape\t/d' -e > 's/^Shapefile Feature Class\t//g' -e 's/\tShapefile Feature > Class\tShape\t/\t/g' > foo_shapefiles.csv > > Mayeul > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Stephan Holl > <[hidden email]> wrote: > > > I would love to read more about Barries reverse engeneerings of the > > 'obfuscated' format. > > All I've discovered at the moment is that if you dump it using > "strings -e l foo.mxd" on a Linux box you can actually see the file > names of shapefiles and geotiffs - they're stored as UTF-16 strings. > But being able to locate where in the whole mush of strings that whizz > past so you could automatically strip them out is another problem. > > If I actually had this problem on a one-off, say someone gave me a > MXD with two layers and the accompanying shapefiles, I'd probably just > do it manually - start Qgis, load two layers. With a hundred layers > I'd probably get the filenames and make a Qgis project file > programmatically. But given that extracting anything other than the > layer file names and ordering (styling, for example) is just about > impossible I'd probably do it from the filenames rather than the MXD > itself. But anyway, for me the break-even point for automating this is > about 20 layers, and that might only happen once in my lifetime... > > Barry
I missed the beginning of this conversation, but I'm wondering if the arcmap2sld project would help at all with this. http://wald.intevation.org/projects/arcmap2sld/ Regards, Alister _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
