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<p>Hi Even,</p>
<p>Yes, PDF is mainly a presentation format. But it is also very much a vector format.</p>
<p>Are there technical issues or other complications that keep us from listing it as both vector and raster driver? Geopackage is also a hybrid format and is listed in both.</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Andreas</p>
<p id="reply-intro">On 2019-11-20 11:04, Even Rouault wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">On mercredi 20 novembre 2019 09:35:48 CET Andreas Neumann wrote:
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">Hi,<br /><br />Ah - found it under the raster formats:<br /><br /><a href="https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/pdf.html?highlight=pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/pdf.html?highlight=pdf</a><br /><br />Shouldn't it also be listed under the vector formats? It is more useful<br />as a vector format - isn't it?</blockquote>
<br />Well PDF is mostly a presentation format. Very much about rendering. Mixes <br />raster, text, vector content, and many other things. So the more reliable way <br />of exposing it from GDAL point of view is a raster. The vector side of the PDF <br />can extract *some* things, but it is lossy.<br /><br />Even</div>
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