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!! _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev