[gdal-dev] Something wrong with writing a big raster into PDF

Etienne Tourigny etourigny.dev at gmail.com
Fri Mar 7 09:27:24 PST 2014


Jukka - have you tried with other pdf viewers?


On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Pepijn Van Eeckhoudt <
pepijn at vaneeckhoudt.net> wrote:

> On 07-03-14 11:42, Jukka Rahkonen wrote:
>
>> I had another try with the same binaries with a small png file (2000x2000
>> pixels) and conversion into pdf was fast and successful. Is there perhaps
>> something that does not scale up properly when the raster size gets
>> bigger?
>>
> Based on my own experience, Adobe's PDF viewer doesn't handles this type
> of PDF very well. They eventually get displayed but it can take a long time.
> Internally raster PDFs are typically structured as a large, single level
> mosaic of small images (jpeg or jpeg2000). There's some fairly large
> examples at http://www.agc.army.mil/Missions/Terrain/GeoPDFMaps/
> GeoPDFGallery.aspx that you could have a look at and see how Acrobat
> copes with those.
>
> Pepijn
>
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