[gdal-dev] Relating to GeoLocation tool of Geospatial PDF Document

[Rahkonen Jukka (MML)]

Hi,

The OGC_BP option is actually  created by TerraGo and I am surprised that it does not work for you with the TerraGo Toolbar because that is the native way for adding georeferencing info into GeoPDF (tm) files. In some of my early tests I found problems with interoperability:

Only ISO: OK for Adobe reader, not-OK for TerraGO
Only OGC-BP: not-OK for Adobe reader, OK for TerraGo
Both ISO and OGC-BP: OK for Adobe reader, not OK for TerraGo toolbar

I made a bug report about the TerraGo toolbar a few years ago and I think that in later versions the bug was fixed so that it could handle also the "only ISO"  and "ISO + OGC-BP" cases. Unfortunately I don't have any computer with TerraGo toolbar available right now but I will try to make some tests later. An ideal case the BOTH option suits both for Adobe reader TerraGo toolbar so you could use that and reach the best interoperability and advanced features of TerraGo toolbar. Only users with ancient TerraGo Toolbar would be sad but they should upgrade in any case. But your findings suggest that this may not be the case.

Please tell us the exact versions of your Adobe Reader and TerraGo Toolbar  and the operating system you are running.

I know that TerraGo folks at least used to follow gdal-dev so perhaps we will get some true information soon.

-Jukka Rahkonen.-


Vankadara, Sunil wrote:

> Hi Jukka Rahkonen,

> Thanks for the provided information.
> Now I am able to see the lat/long values in the GeoLocator tool for the files created with ISO32000 option.
> I have installed the Terrago tool bar and created the file with OGC_BP option and noticed that neither 
> Adobe's GeoLocator tool nor Terrago Geolocator toll showing the coordinates.
> In fact the Terrago Geolocator tool is greyed out for this OGC_BP option file.  Actually I am confused where 
> this OGC_BP option used in creating the PDF documents? Or is it needs to used using the Terrago s/w only?

Regards
Sunil
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Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Relating to GeoLocation tool of Geospatial PDF Document

Vankadara, Sunil <sunil.vankadara <at> hexagongeospatial.com> writes:

> 
> 
> 
> Hi Team,
>  
> I created a PDF file with OGC_BP as GEO_ENCODING option like shown in 
> the
 below command.  The below tif file’s Datum and Projection details are WGS84 /Geographic (lat/lon).
>  
> ./gdal_translate.exe -of PDF ../../Data/input/sample256x256_1.tif
../../Data/output/sample256x256_1.pdf -co GEO_ENCODING=OGC_BP -co COMPRESS=JPEG -co
>  PRODUCER="ERDAS IMAGINE" -co CREATION_DATE=D:20150407111345+02'00'
>  
> Looked at the created PDF file Metadata using QGIS tool and noticed 
> that
it is having the same datum and projection details as like below.
>  
> Layer Spatial Reference System
> 
> +proj=longlat +datum=WGS84 +no_defs
> 
> Layer Extent (layer original source projection)
> -84.5046451524118538,34.1200924180016969 :
-84.5042907999925177,34.1204467704210259
>  
> When I tried to use the Geospatial Location tool
(Edit->Analysis->Geospatial Location Tool ) in the Adobe PDF Reader then the empty lat/long values are displaying at the right bottom of the  document.
> Am I missing anything in creating the Geospatial PDF document ? How to
confirm whether the CRS information is written into the PDF document or not?
> How GDAL PDF handles in case the given projection is not supported by 
> the
driver?

Hi,

Don't use the -co GEO_ENCODING=OGC_BP option alone if you want to show coordinates with standard Acrobat viewer without the TerraGo toolbar. Use the default which means ISO32000, or BOTH.

Confirm the result with gdalinfo "gdalinfo output.pdf". If source SRS is not recognized define it explicitly by using parameters -s_srs and -t_srs.
Alternatively you can just attach SRS to output with -a_srs.

-Jukka Rahkonen-
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