- Status Closed
- Percent Complete
- Task Type Feature Request
- Category QCAD (main)
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Assigned To
Andrew - Operating System All
- Severity Low
- Priority Very Low
- Reported Version Development
- Due in Version Undecided
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Due Date
Undecided
- Votes 2
- Private
Attached to Project: QCAD Bugtracker
Opened by Anonymous Submitter - 19.10.2015
Last edited by Andrew - 03.12.2021
Opened by Anonymous Submitter - 19.10.2015
Last edited by Andrew - 03.12.2021
FS#1281 - PDF Import
Not too sure if this would be possible for QCAD, but an option to open/import pdfs would be good.
Closed by Andrew
03.12.2021 20:27
Reason for closing: Implemented
Additional comments about closing:
03.12.2021 20:27
Reason for closing: Implemented
Additional comments about closing:
QCAD Pro 3.27.0
Can you please elaborate on this? Would you expect the PDF be displayed in the drawing, similar like an image or that the contents of the PDF file would be imported as lines, arcs, etc?
Hi Andrew, thanks for reviewing this, I know you are busy.
I was thinking that it would be very useful to import a PDF file as lines etc... yes, but to import a PDF as an image would be equally useful indeed.
Regards
Clive
There are existing solutions to convert PDF to DXF, also free ones:
https://www.google.com/search?q=convert%20pdf%20to%20dxf
The results are probably not very impressive or useful though: PDF is a presentation format while DXF contains the original data structures. A DXF to PDF conversion is irreversible, I'm afraid.
Okay thanks for your time on this. I know it can be done successfully, because I am able to use Adobe Illustrator to import a PDF file and it will cleanly convert to lines etc... I just thought it would be very useful if QCAD could do the same, so I could miss out using Illustrator.
For those interested, oss alternative for Adobe Illustrator is Inkscape, https://inkscape.org/en/ You can import PDF and export DXF..
There are pdf files with vectors.
A must for plans in Belgium.