[gdal-dev] (Geo)PDF information missing from online list of vector drivers?

[Even Rouault]

On mercredi 20 novembre 2019 09:35:48 CET Andreas Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Ah - found it under the raster formats:
> 
> https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/pdf.html?highlight=pdf
> 
> Shouldn't it also be listed under the vector formats? It is more useful
> as a vector format - isn't it?

Well PDF is mostly a presentation format. Very much about rendering. Mixes 
raster, text, vector content, and many other things. So the more reliable way 
of exposing it from GDAL point of view is a raster. The vector side of the PDF 
can extract *some* things, but it is lossy.

Even

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