[Xastir] GeoPDF

[Derrick Brashear]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengston at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengston at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Derrick Brashear <shadow at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I know this came up a while ago.
>>>
>>> The USGS has been making historic topos available online, free. My
>>> entire state suddenly showed up, so I got interested. They're GeoPDF.
>>> Last we discussed it here, no support. That's fine: GDAL 0.8.0 and on
>>> supports it. You need poppler with xpdf support, and then you can just
>>> run gdal_translate.
>>
>> Looks like I'm going to need to compile GDAL from source in order to
>> do a conversion to geotiff.  The version 1.6 binary in the Ubuntu
>> 11.04 repository doesn't seem to recognize the GeoPDF format.  I'm not
>> sure if I had the syntax right, but at least it appeared to try to
>> open the map file.
>>
>> gdal_translate VA_Leesburg_20110624_TM_geo.pdf Leesburg.GTiff
>>
>> GDALOpen failed - 4
>> `VA_Leesburg_20110624_TM_geo.pdf' not recognised as a supported file format.
>
> Just saw on the gdal.org site that it takes version 1.8.0 or greater
> not 0.8.0, so the Ubuntu version isn't going to cut it.
>
Er. Brain-o. 1.8.0, 1.8.1 respectively for GeoPDF and for neatline cropping.




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Derrick