[OSM-talk] OSM to Illustrator

[Steve Chilton]

David,

Initial results look promising.
Tried it via EPS to CorelDraw and looks fine at first glance.
Need to check out all the text options (whether to "convert" or not,
etc).
Will put something on wiki about customising maps later.
I am in middle of a doodle of customised map of some cycle routes in
Lake District as example to use for publicity at L Distict mapping week.

PS: your name search/OSM combination worked a treat in real life to
locate a party venue for my son on Sunday (in St Albans, which is well
mapped) and print resulting map, with pubs as navigation aids.

Cheers
STEVE

Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow
Learning and Technical Support Unit Manager
School of Health and Social Sciences
Middlesex University
phone/fax: 020 8411 5355
email: steve8 at mdx.ac.uk

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-----Original Message-----
From: David Earl [mailto:david at frankieandshadow.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 10:21 AM
To: Steve Chilton; talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] OSM to Illustrator


> 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