[gdal-dev] ogr2ogr: Unable to open datasource [SVG, PDF] with the following drivers

[Even Rouault]

Le mercredi 28 mai 2014 22:10:51, klo uo a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I have vector data in PDF format, which I tried to georeference with
> org2ogr -gcp feature and output basic Shapefile, but program complains that
> it's unable to read the PDF file, which I confirm as valid by processing it
> with ghostscript.
> 
> I then converted PDF to SVG and confirmed that SVG is well-formed and valid
> XML, but again ogr2ogr complains about it.
> 
> Finally by converting initial PDF to DXF, ogr2ogr was able to complete the
> task.
> 
> I want to avoid converting PDF to other format and especially to DXF which
> makes the process slow, so I'm hoping for advice. I can provide the test
> files if necessary.  Thanks.

Could you provide the test file ? The PDF vector reader has some limitations, 
and works best with "structured" PDF.

As far as SVG is concerned, the SVG reader is also currently limited to a 
particular formation of SVG : http://gdal.org/drv_svg.html

Even

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