[GRASS-user] geoPDF

Markus Neteler neteler at osgeo.org
Thu Aug 9 06:22:48 PDT 2012


On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Dave Kindem <dkindem at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to bring one of the new USGS topo maps into  into GRASS.  I
> understand that GDAL now supports converting geoPDF to geoTIFF.  I don't see
> geoPDF listed in the common file formats pulldown in the Import Raster Data
> dialog box.  Do I need to run GDAL from the command line to make this
> conversion?
>
> I'm using GRASS 6.4.1 on OS X 10.7.4.  I've downloaded the latest KyngChaos
> GDAL framework, GDAL 1.9 complete.

You need to verify if GDAL was compiled with libpoppler, see:
http://www.gdal.org/frmt_pdf.html

Or does your GDAL installation show it as format and it "just" lacks in GRASS?
To my knowledge the list of supported formats is autogenerated.

Markus


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