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

[Pepijn Van Eeckhoudt]

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