[Qgis-user] Using geo-referenced pdf in QGIS 2.14.3 for Mac

William Kyngesburye woklist at kyngchaos.com
Thu Aug 4 19:03:47 PDT 2016


Assuming you are using my QGIS package + GDAL Complete - you need to install the GDAL GeoPDF plugin, available on my OS X Frameworks page.

http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/frameworks

> On Aug 4, 2016, at 10:37 AM, Jane James <jane at heathsidefarm.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi 
> I have been working on a project using geo-referenced pdf files in GQIS, both 2.16 and 2.14.3 on a Windows 10 machine. In windows I can bring the pdf’s in as raster layers with no problems. 
> 
> However, when I open the same project in QGIS on my mac the layers come up as bad layers when the project opens. If I try to reload the pdfs as raster layers I get an error message saying that pdf is not a supported raster data source. Also, PDF is not available in the list of raster file types.
> 
> Can anyone suggest what I’m doing wrong please? Or is this a feature of the operating system on a Mac. My knowledge of GIS is very rudimentary and I can’t do anything complex in GDAL (what ever that is!)
> 
> many thanks for any help
> 
> Jane James 
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