I think you could read Encapsulated Postscript .EPS files into InterGraph
Microstation. Try that route.
Jeremy.
On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, Humphrey Southall wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> As an aspect of the historical GIS work at QMW, we are investigating
> whether it is possible to gather boundary data for use within Arc/Info from
> a large set of Adobe Illustrator files created by a collaborator. The
> material started life as tracings of ancient parish boundaries which have
> been scanned and then vectorised using Adobe Streamline, the purpose being
> simply to create clearer maps for readers: the vectorised lines have not
> been converted into polygons, although reference numbers identifying each
> parish have been added.
>
> We have plenty of experience going the other way, exporting Arc/Info data
> to Illustrator for annotation and so on, and it is not too hard to see how
> a program could be written to convert Illustrator or PostScript files (more
> or less the same thing) which consist entirely of "moveto"s and "lineto"s
> into Arc/Info UNGENERATE files. The problem is that the Illustrator files
> we want to convert contain many "curveto"s which define line segments not
> as vectors but as bezier curves.
>
> Does anyone out there have any ideas about how to make this conversion?
> For example, is there any GIS package which understands bezier curves? Is
> there any package which can read Illustrator or Postscript files and
> convert the curves to a series of vectors? If there was a piece of
> existing software which would definitely solve this problem we could
> possibly cost it into the budget for the proposed work.
>
> With thanks for any assistance you can give us,
>
> Humphrey Southall
> (Director, British Isles Historical GIS project)
>
>
>
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