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| Subject: | RE: GISList: Reprojecting EPS-file |
| Date: |
02/21/2002 11:24:15 AM |
| From: |
Susan N. Muleme |
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Hello Hugo,
I suggest you try Avenza's MAPublisher to translate your Illustrator file
directly into a GIS file format that can be imported in ArcInfo
(www.avenza.com). MAPublisher even has a Projection editor that has a bit of
a learning curve- but I've found it useful.
Susan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hugo Ahlenius [mailto:ahlenius@grida.no\
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 4:52 AM
> To: gislist@geocomm.com
> Subject: GISList: Reprojecting EPS-file
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>
> Hi all,
>
> I am doing a minor job (as the in-house GIS expert) in support our
> cartographer/graphic designer. He had now gotten a bunch of world maps as
> EPS-files in geographic/Platte Carre projection that he wanted to have
> re-projected to Winkel Tripel.
>
> At my hands are basically all ESRI products (ArcGIS 8.1 etc), and Adobe
> graphics s/w. It is just a small thing, so I'm not sure we want to buy
> anything new, but if there are any free tools (that are easy to use), that
> would be interesting. But it would also be interesting to hear about other
> s/w that can do it.
>
> I managed to do it this way:
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> * Open in Illustrator
> * Remove all strokes (lines on the polygons)
> * Remove text and legend (keep just map)
> * Export to BMP in 300 dpi
> * Import the BMP in ArcInfo (imagegrid) as a 3-channel stack
> (this means each RGB channel is interpreted as a dataset)
> * Reproject each channel Geographic/PlatteCarre>Winkel/Tripel
> * Export the re-projected 3-channel stack as an RGB BMP
> * Convert BMP to EPS using the program 'autotrace'
>
> The polygon definitions between neighbouring polys are lost in
> the 2nd step
> if they have the same color, since the dividers between them are
> removed. It
> can be solved by just giving all the basins unique colors (which the
> cartographer will need to re-correct afterwards, which he probably will
> anyways).
>
> I tried to export it as a DXF from Illustrator, but ArcMap refused to open
> those. But when I got a DXF exported from Freehand, then I could open it,
> register and export it!
>
> Any comments, tips_
>
>
> // Hugo Ahlenius
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