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BK
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Posted - January 24 2005 :  6:23:17 PM  Show Profile  Visit BK's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Hello,

I've looked around quite a bit for some sort of conversion utility to do this task. Just wondering if there is anything out there that you guys recommend?

I have a few PDF files that I need to convert, so I can make some edits.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Bill

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Posted - January 25 2005 :  08:44:47 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
http://www.trixsystems.com/pdf2vector.html?source=google&campaign=convert_PDF_to_CAD

Only one I know of, but spendy: $395, I think.
Steve Bubendorf
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Posted - January 25 2005 :  11:03:56 AM  Show Profile  Visit Admin's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Thanks...!

Unfortunately the budget can't handle it... I've only got two drawings...

In the meantime I've found this...http://www.algolab.com/r2v.htm
and have been playing with it... Maybe it would be useful to someone.

It's a raster to vector convertor... You have to take a screen shot (convert to TIF), touch them up with the tools included and then render them to vector (DXF).

The demo is fully functional for 10 days, and after playing with it a bit, the output is not quite what I am looking for (mainly because the PDF that I'm taking the screenshots from is all raster to begin with, and the TIF output (from the screeshot software) seems to take away some of the detail.

The pdf drawing has a lot of curves, the output varies depending on the Vectorize settings you choose. Looks like this might have to be a "manual" job... damn!

Regards,
Bill
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Posted - January 25 2005 :  11:14:25 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Bill,you disguised yourself with your first post. I'm used to seeing "Admin" not "BK" as the author when you're posting. I didn't realize I was responding to you.

I didn't think the URL was likely to help unless you had a need to use the software repeatedly. There don't seem to be many direct routes from PDF to DWG or DXF available. I'm sure now that so many are choosing PDF format to secure their drawings, everyone will soon be offering software to "hack" the PDF's: just a matter of time. Which, of course, won't help you with your current task, however.
Steve Bubendorf
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Admin
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Posted - January 25 2005 :  2:08:17 PM  Show Profile  Visit Admin's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Sorry... didn't mean to disguise myself...!!

I sometimes login as BK when I'm not acting as Admin, I wasn't even thinking! it's kind of my "test" account.

(It's actually nice to see the forum as everyone else does... (when I'm in admin mode there are all sorts of differences))

Regards,
BK 'er Admin
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dyet
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Posted - February 10 2005 :  6:22:43 PM  Show Profile  Visit dyet's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Hi

What I use GSVIEW and it works like a charm...and its free..

PDF to DWG(DXF)

Install Instructions

Step 1. Download and Install GSVIEW ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/ghostgum/gsv46w32.exe
GSVIEW Info; http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/gsviewen.htm

Step 2. Download and Install Ghostscript ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/gs704/gs704w32.exe
Ghostscript Info; http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/get704.htm

Step 3. Download and Install PsToEdit http://home.t-online.de/home/helga.glunz/wglunz/pstoedit/pstoeditsetup.exe
PStoEdit Info; http://www.pstoedit.net/pstoedit/
Make sure you install under C:Program FilesGhostgumgsviewpstoedit


Notes;
These links are for Windows but I believe they have apps for Linux.


Converting PDF to DWG (DXF)

Open GSVIEW(Ghostgum)

In GSVIEW, Open PDF document... File>Open

Convert to DXF.....Edit>Convert to vector format>
From the list in the dialog box scroll down/up to select "DXF_S Cad Exchange format with splines"

And presto converts the PDF to DXF...

A couple things;
Sometimes its actually quicker just to recreate the drawing. Sometimes the extraction doesn't work out that well...(lines are quite jagged) but most of the times it works.
You have to scale the drawing.

Cheers.

Dave
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Posted - February 11 2005 :  07:34:09 AM  Show Profile  Visit Admin's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Wow... that works like a charm!

I find the "dxf" rather than the "dxf_s" format works best.

The results are as good as I've been looking for. Wow... Thanks!

Bill
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