Re: [GRASS-user] Vector drawings in PDF - converting them

2008-02-18 Thread John C. Tull
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

Re: [GRASS-user] Vector drawings in PDF - converting them

2008-01-21 Thread Glynn Clements
Hamish wrote: I found this with a search of freshmeat.net. Perhaps it will work, and free. Let us know. http://www.pstoedit.net/ Kurt Heston wrote: Excellent! Works flawlessly. Just a little experimenting yielded this command: pstoedit.exe -f dxf_s:-splineaspolyline

Re: [GRASS-user] Vector drawings in PDF - converting them

2008-01-20 Thread Hamish
John Tull wrote: I found this with a search of freshmeat.net. Perhaps it will work, and free. Let us know. http://www.pstoedit.net/ Kurt Heston wrote: Excellent! Works flawlessly. Just a little experimenting yielded this command: pstoedit.exe -f dxf_s:-splineaspolyline roads.pdf

Re: [GRASS-user] Vector drawings in PDF - converting them

2008-01-19 Thread Kurt Heston
To: grass-user@lists.osgeo.org Subject:Re: [GRASS-user] Vector drawings in PDF - converting them Grass 6.2 appears to be even less agreeable to the DXF format that Inkscape writes than it was to the one Illustrator did. I'm still playing with it, but no luck yet. Dylan Beaudette wrote

Re: [GRASS-user] Vector drawings in PDF - converting them

2008-01-19 Thread John C . Tull
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

Re: [GRASS-user] Vector drawings in PDF - converting them

2008-01-19 Thread Kurt Heston
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

Re: [GRASS-user] Vector drawings in PDF - converting them

2008-01-17 Thread Andreas Neumann
ok, the problems are with the curves. The ogr2ogr tool has a converter from Interlis to other ogrformats. Interlis supports arcs (defined by three points). They also calculate new vertices along the arcs to be compatible to other formats that don't support curves. One can define how many Every

Re: [GRASS-user] Vector drawings in PDF - converting them

2008-01-17 Thread Vincent BAIN
Within Illustrator maybe you can build a script that adds intermediate points to curves (don't really remember, but it sounds like 'densify paths', or 'add anchor points'), attended that vertices will be recognized when imported Vincent Le jeudi 17 janvier 2008 à 09:03 +0100, Andreas Neumann a

Re: [GRASS-user] Vector drawings in PDF - converting them

2008-01-17 Thread Kurt Heston
Dylan, Will do. Is there a specific feature I should look for that solves my specific problem? --K 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