Hi Even,
Yes, PDF is mainly a presentation format. But it is also very much a
vector format.
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.
Thanks,
Andreas
On 2019-11-20 11:04, Even Rouault wrote:
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
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