[gdal-dev] geoPDF file "not recognized as a supported format" by GDAL1.8dev ?

[Even Rouault]

Boris

yes, GDAL should be able to read geoPDF topo files from the USGS. (geospatial 
PDF is more neutral term than geoPDF that happens to be a trademark... see 
"Important Note" in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geospatial_PDF. no further 
comment...)

First, did you check that PDF is listed when doing :

$ gdalinfo --formats

If not, then GDAL configure hasn't found poppler. You should check that you 
have a /usr/include/poppler directory and a /usr/lib/libpoppler.so file, or if 
you have installed them in another root (./configure --enable-xpdf-headers --
prefix=/some/path) , you should specify this directory as value of --with-
poppler=/some/path

If yes, then you should provide a link to the file that causes problem so I can 
see what's wrong with it

Le jeudi 14 octobre 2010 21:24:38, Boris Dev a écrit :
> A GDAL doc <http://www.gdal.org/frmt_pdf.html> says GDAL1.8 handles
> geospatial PDF file (which I assume are the same as geoPDF topo files of
> the USGS).
> 
> The problem is that after compiling GDAL1.8 from source GDAL doesn't
> recognize my geoPDF file.
> 
> When I try both of the following:
> 
> $gdalinfo my_geopdf.pdf
> 
> $gdal_translate my_geopdf.pdf
> 
> It returns:
> 
> ERROR 4: 'my_geopdf.pdf' not recognized as a supported format"
> 
> When compiling GDAL and POPPLER (which is also needed for this problem) I
> made sure to do the following:
> 
> gdal$./configure --with-poppler=yes --with-python
> 
> poppler$./configure --enable-xpdf-headers
> 
> ...any suggestions on where I am going wrong with this?
> 
> I am new to using GDAL.
> 
> My final objective to to extact the geoPDF images as jpegs and somehow
> extract the latitude/longitude bounding box information of the image so I
> can create KMLs.
> 
> THANKS!!