Uploaded September 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Import elevation contour lines to Adobe Illustrator from any landscape. This tutorial will teach you how to use QGIS to export elevation contours in a format that can be loaded into any graphics editor. After the contours are exported we show how to do some basic manipulations in Inkscape.
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Import elevation contour lines to Adobe Illustrator from any landscape. This tutorial will teach you how to use QGIS to export elevation contours in a format that can be loaded into any graphics editor. After the contours are exported we show how to do some basic manipulations in Inkscape.
For more details about exporting geographic data in SVG format and creating maps from SVG layers, check out our professional cartography course: opensourceoptions.com/courses
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