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motoxy
18-05-2012, 12:26 PM
Antonio's clocks are in a pdf format. How would you convert this into something that you could generate g code from?

Bruce

NB70
18-05-2012, 05:51 PM
Bruce,

Inkscape can open PDFs and save as DXF, but I've had better results with Vectric Cut2D which can open pdfs directly,

Nathan

motoxy
18-05-2012, 08:36 PM
Thanks Nathan. i will give it a try

motoxy
19-05-2012, 09:10 PM
I tried cut 2d but it seemed to load every page of the pdf at once.
Just loaded inkscape and it worked a treat. You can select which page to load and then save them to dxf. Thanks Nathan

Musht
21-05-2012, 10:51 AM
Better Better DXF output is worth plugging in to Inkscape:

http://tim.cexx.org/?p=590

motoxy
21-05-2012, 11:26 AM
thanks musht. I have added the files.

Bruce

njhussey
23-05-2012, 07:19 PM
This is usefull information thanks Nathan! I'll have a look at Inkscape as I've got lots of PDF's I want to convert to DXF's.

navins
28-02-2014, 08:11 AM
You can do that by advanced Acrobat reader.
They av options to convert file in whatever your format.