[OSM-talk] OSM to Illustrator

[David Earl]

> Has anyone experimented (and succeeded!) with importing OSM data to
> mainstream graphics software packages such as Illustrator or CorelDraw?
> I am thinking of the potential uses by "traditional" cartographers. I
> can move data to Inkscape and edit things fine there (it uses SVG as its
> native format). However, trying to bring and SVG file either directly
> from Osmarender (or via Inkscape first) into my version of CorelDraw
> (vers X3) results in all sorts of size changes to lines and lettering,
> that makes in unusable.

I produced the printed Cambridge map via Illustrator, but it wasn't
straightforward. The problem is that Illustrator doesn't handle text
direction properly when opening SVG directly. So what I did was open the SVG
in Inkscape and save as EPS, then open the EPS in Illustrator.

David