{"id":698,"date":"2019-05-27T15:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/?p=698"},"modified":"2019-05-27T14:58:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T12:58:10","slug":"convert-area-or-line-objects-to-point-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/convert-area-or-line-objects-to-point-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"Convert Area or Line Objects to Point Objects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have symbols on your map, which consist of many different line and\/or area objects. Editing and moving around these Symbols can get tedious. In OCAD Mapping Solution, there&#8217;s a function to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocad.com\/wiki\/ocad\/en\/index.php?title=Map#Convert_Area_or_Line_Objects_to_Point_Objects\"><strong>Convert Area and Line Objects to a Point Symbol<\/strong><\/a> (Wiki).<\/p>\n<p>A typical example for this function would be the import of a PDF. Vector objects in PDF files are imported as Image Objects (grey objects) and can be converted to Point Symbols (green objects). Learn here, how to <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jPjEtQTPeOA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Create a Point Symbol out of Vector Data<\/strong><\/a> (Video).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ocad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ConvertLineArea2Point.png\" alt=\"Convert Line and Area Objects to Point Objects\" width=\"580\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p>Your map becomes <strong>more consistent and better structured<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have symbols on your map, which consist of many different line and\/or area objects. Editing and moving around these Symbols can get tedious. In OCAD Mapping Solution, there&#8217;s a function to Convert Area and Line Objects to a Point Symbol (Wiki). A typical example for this function would be the import of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,46],"tags":[59,10,27],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ocad-12","category-ocad-2018","tag-orienteering","tag-professional-map-making","tag-smarte-bearbeitungs-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}