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 -- Spatialys - Geospatial professional services http://www.spatialys.com _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
