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

[Boris Dev]

Your instructions worked. thanks!

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Even Rouault
<even.rouault at mines-paris.org>wrote:

> 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!!
>
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