Hi Mike, I just saw Alex's message about and tried the latest inkscape and can confirm that PDFs can be loaded into it. I was able to extract several symbols, but a few did not render correctly.
Bob On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Mike Toews <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bob, > > Sure is possible. First, you need to make the icon into an SVG file. > If you have Adobe Illustrator, you can open the PDF you provided a > link to, isolate or copy the graphic and save it as SVG. Inkscape is > another good (free) tool, but it cannot open PDFs, so you will need to > trace the graphic. > > Once it is an SVG, just place the file into the QGIS svg directory > somewhere (e.g., C:\OSGeo4W\apps\qgis-unstable\svg), and it will be > available as a point symbol next time you open QGIS. The symbol size > can be based on a numeric attribute of the layer by setting Properties >> Symbology > Drawing by field > Area scale (the location of this > option depends on which version of QGIS, I'm using 1.4.0). > > -Mike > > > On 26 February 2010 10:31, Bob and Deb <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I am interested in mapping landslides using the symbols found here: >> http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/fgdc_gds/geolsymstd/fgdc-geolsym-sec17.pdf . >> >> Can I do this with qgis? If I can do this in qgis, I would also like >> to have qgis scale some of these symbols so that they are proportional >> to the size and direction of the landslide. How do I do that? >> >> Thanks in advance! >> >> Bob >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
