Your instructions worked. thanks! On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Even Rouault <even.roua...@mines-paris.org>wrote:
> Boris > > yes, GDAL should be able to read geoPDF topo files from the USGS. > (geospatial > PDF is more neutral term than geoPDF that happens to be a trademark... see > "Important Note" in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geospatial_PDF. no > further > comment...) > > First, did you check that PDF is listed when doing : > > $ gdalinfo --formats > > If not, then GDAL configure hasn't found poppler. You should check that you > have a /usr/include/poppler directory and a /usr/lib/libpoppler.so file, or > if > you have installed them in another root (./configure --enable-xpdf-headers > -- > prefix=/some/path) , you should specify this directory as value of --with- > poppler=/some/path > > If yes, then you should provide a link to the file that causes problem so I > can > see what's wrong with it > > Le jeudi 14 octobre 2010 21:24:38, Boris Dev a écrit : > > A GDAL doc <http://www.gdal.org/frmt_pdf.html> says GDAL1.8 handles > > geospatial PDF file (which I assume are the same as geoPDF topo files of > > the USGS). > > > > The problem is that after compiling GDAL1.8 from source GDAL doesn't > > recognize my geoPDF file. > > > > When I try both of the following: > > > > $gdalinfo my_geopdf.pdf > > > > $gdal_translate my_geopdf.pdf > > > > It returns: > > > > ERROR 4: 'my_geopdf.pdf' not recognized as a supported format" > > > > When compiling GDAL and POPPLER (which is also needed for this problem) I > > made sure to do the following: > > > > gdal$./configure --with-poppler=yes --with-python > > > > poppler$./configure --enable-xpdf-headers > > > > ...any suggestions on where I am going wrong with this? > > > > I am new to using GDAL. > > > > My final objective to to extact the geoPDF images as jpegs and somehow > > extract the latitude/longitude bounding box information of the image so I > > can create KMLs. > > > > THANKS!! >
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