Bug report #9776

Support for georeferenced pdfs is still broken on Windows

Added by T Hell over 11 years ago. Updated over 11 years ago.

Status:Closed
Priority:Normal
Assignee:-
Category:-
Affected QGIS version:2.2.0 Regression?:No
Operating System:Windows Easy fix?:No
Pull Request or Patch supplied:No Resolution:up/downstream
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data:No Copied to github as #:18318

Description

As it was written under bug #8912 I hereby ask to reopen this bug for the windows plattform, it looks like linux is working well.

The import/export of pdf formats is currently not possible with the latest Windows QGIS.

QGIS version 2.2.0-Valmiera
QGIS code revision c3a2817
Compiled against GDAL/OGR 1.10.1
Running against GDAL/OGR 1.10.1

Also gdalinfo.exe is not working correclty.

$ /cygdrive/c/OSGeo4W64/bin/gdalinfo.exe --version
GDAL 1.10.1, released 2013/08/26

$ OSGeo4W64/bin/gdalinfo.exe rumney_farmforest_geopdf.pdf

... and is not recognised as a supported dataset name.

Other binaries from other sources work. It looks like the gdal-toolchain needs an update (Missing pdf libs?). Thank you.

History

#1 Updated by T Hell over 11 years ago

Here is the full gdalinfo on Windows error message:

ERROR 4: `rumney_farmforest_geopdf.pdf' does not exist in the file system,
and is not recognised as a supported dataset name.

gdalinfo failed - unable to open 'rumney_farmforest_geopdf.pdf'.

Expected gdalinfo output:


Driver: PDF/Geospatial PDF
Files: ..\\..\\..\\..\
umney_farmforest_geopdf.pdf
Size is 5700, 5250
Coordinate System is:
PROJCS["NAD83 / New Hampshire",
    GEOGCS["NAD83",
        DATUM["North_American_Datum_1983",
            SPHEROID["GRS 1980",6378137,298.257222101,
                AUTHORITY["EPSG","7019"]],
            TOWGS84[0,0,0,0,0,0,0],
            AUTHORITY["EPSG","6269"]],
        PRIMEM["Greenwich",0,
            AUTHORITY["EPSG","8901"]],
        UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433,
            AUTHORITY["EPSG","9122"]],
        AUTHORITY["EPSG","4269"]],

Tagging works on the commandline with:

gdal_translate.exe -of PDF geo-example.tiff test.pdf

But geospatial PDF import/export is currently not working 'inside' QGIS on Windows.

#3 Updated by Jürgen Fischer over 11 years ago

  • Resolution set to up/downstream
  • Status changed from Open to Closed

This isn't an actual QGIS problem. QGIS on Windows uses GDAL from OSGeo4W, which currently doesn't have PDF write support, but no read support.

#4 Updated by T Hell over 11 years ago

Thank you for your quick response. Yes, http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ is the correct place for this, I got confused after creating my account.

Is there already a bug entry for this problem in the osgeo4w tracker? Thanks for forwarding this problem to the right source.

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