[OSM-talk] OSM layer into Adobe Illustrator?

[Barnett, Phillip]

Hmm, I'll try that. When I actually did try exporting Baghdad as a 5Mb
SVG file, Illustrator (on a dual Xeon with 8Gb Ram) took a looong time
to import the data, and then everything came through mostly
transparent/background colour. Not sure why yet. 

Phillip


 
 



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-----Original Message-----

From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org
[mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of David Earl
Sent: 22 February 2007 17:18
To: talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM layer into Adobe Illustrator?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org
> [mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org]On Behalf Of Richard Fairhurst
> Sent: 22 February 2007 12:33
> To: talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM layer into Adobe Illustrator?
>
>
> Phillip Barnett wrote:
>
> > Can someone knowledgeable tell me whether it's possible to extract 
> > the OSM map data being done from Yahoo imagery, and import it 
> > somehow (as a
> > layer?) into Adobe Illustrator, probably overlaid onto Google Earth?
>
> Osmarender will generate SVG, which Illustrator can open.


Just to go back to the original technical question: my Illustrator (v10
- I don't have CS1 or CS2) will open the file but screws up the text on
roads (text on a path) - the characters are in the right place, but all
vertical.

The way around this is to open the SVG in Inkscape, save it in EPS from
there, and then open the EPS in Illustrator.

This is also a much better route for getting PDFs and images out - the
EPS can be opened in Photoshop too at a specific size and resolution.

David


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