[gdal-dev] Can a GepPDF be generated using a Composition file from command line?

[Andrew C Aitchison]

On Wed, 26 Aug 2020, Ian Mayo wrote:

> The documentation page for PDF via GDAL includes the description for
> using an XML Composition File:
> https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/pdf.html#creation-of-pdf-file-from-a-xml-composition-file-gdal-3-0
>
> But, the description only gives examples of the XML Composition file
> being used from C++ or Python code.
>
> Is it possible to use the XML Composition file directly from GDAL
> commands on the command line?

That page links to
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OSGeo/gdal/master/gdal/swig/python/samples/gdal_create_pdf.py
which is a python script to do exactly that.

> (presumably the Composition file would be passed as a -co creation
> option parameter)

def Usage():
     print('Usage: gdal_create_pdf composition.xml out.pdf')
     return -1

... so you don't even need the "-co" argument.

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