[gdal-dev] Installing GDAL on Win7

[Norman Vine]

On Mar 23, 2014, at 9:32 PM, Mike Flannigan <mikeflan at att.net> wrote:

> 
> Thank you all.  I got it to work with the following 
> command:
> gdal_translate -of GTiff -co "TILED=YES" -co "TFW=YES" C:\Copy\wp.pdf C:\Copy\wpt.tif --config GDAL_PDF_DPI 300

I would experiment with adding one of these Creation Options
-co "COMPRESS=LZW"
-co "COMPRESS=PACKBITS"
-co "COMPRESS=DEFLATE"

> 
> It works pretty good.  It converts a 11.1 MB PDF into a 
> 96MB Tiff file that zips up into a 57 MB file.  These files 
> are about 15 times bigger than the ones I am used to, but 
> they do have quite a bit of detail and don't have the 
> blank white space that a 7.5 minute topo has.
> 
> These Tiffs are very well georeferenced.  I am pleased.
> 
> Mike