On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Wookey <wookey at wookware.org> wrote:

> Therion 5.2.7 comes with a pt2pdf.pl script which does a direct
> conversion of the 'therion' pockettopo export file into a PDF file
> containing the data in 3 column format and then the actual
> rendered plan and elevation, over 4 pages.

> I guess that's useful as something you could import and draw over,
> but it seems useless for importing the actual data. It is this script I
> rewrote to just turn the 'therion export' format file into something which
> therion could actually understand directly.

pt2pdf is intended for archivation. It will be included as a tool in
xtherion in the future (this is the reason why it is not documented
yet).

You can already import 'therion export' from PocketTopo directly into
latest XTherion:

   - centerline in text editor - File->Import->PocketTopo therion export
   - sketches in map editor - Backgroud Images->Insert->PocketTopo
therion export

> Who writes PocketTopo? Is the code available so we could just make it
> directly export both survex and therion data? (and so we could port it
> to Linux perhaps).

Beat Heeb, author of DistoX. Unfortunately it is closed-source, like Auriga.

Martin

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