Our customer has given us a number of PDF files with drawing that we have to redraw in a CAD format. Does someone know how to export a PDF into DXF, DWG or DXF?
GhostView (GSview) and GhostScript will convert PDF files to vector drawings in DXF file format. But if the source PDF file was created with raster drawings instead of importing a vector format the resulting DXF file will not contain any information about the drawing(s). In GSview you should be using Edit Convert to vector format dxf: CAD exchange format Then select the page to convert, and browse to the target (save) directory and give the the DXF file a file name. The resulting DXF file will contain polygons instead of lines. Circles will be rough and a lot of clean up will be required. But the basic drawing will be useful and cleaning up the file will take less time then scanning the file and digitizing the drawing.
