[gdal-dev] pdf file - raster and vector differences

Piotr Pachół piotrpachol at gmail.com
Sun Feb 7 14:08:29 PST 2016


Hello,

Some types of vector pdf files are not recognizeable by ogrinfo command.
For instance pdf made by Acrobat Distiller. For example file: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:APISmap1.pdf
So is it possible by means of gdal tools to recognize that pdf like that 
is vectorial ?

Regards,
Piotr

W dniu 2016-02-02 o 18:35, Andre Joost pisze:
> Am 02.02.2016 um 15:37 schrieb Piotr Pachół:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to ask If there is a way (by means of gdal tools) to
>> recognize that pdf has vector features ?
>> I have hundreds of geospatial pdf files (raster and vector) and I don't
>> want  to open each of file in Acrobat Reader to verify if it is raster
>> or vector.
>> Instead I would like to make a script to produce result in text files,
>> which I can later process automatically.
>> I must add that in standard result of gdalinfo command I can't see any
>> difference between raster and vector pdf file.
>>
>
> Apart from gdalinfo you can run ogrinfo on the files, which will only 
> return vector layers.
>
> See my answer here for an example:
>
> http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/156299/how-to-have-gdal-print-layers-of-geopdf-and-say-which-are-raster-vs-vector 
>
>
> gdalinfo also reports meta layers, which only consist of sublayers 
> (vector or raster or both), without own data.
>
> HTH,
> André Joost
>



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