| -----Original Message-----
| From: Brent Fraser [mailto:[email protected]]
| Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 10:45 PM
|
| I haven't read the spec yet, but I think GDAL would require linking
| to a library capable of writing (and maybe reading) PDF frames and
| tags.  I don't know of any Open Source PDF library that can to that
| yet (maybe PoDoFo).  Do you know of any?

For rote "conversion", to which GDAL is well suited, wrapping a raster
image in PDF clothing is a fairly simple exercise, so a full-blown
library isn't necessary. With vector data, you have symbolization
issues, font issues, etc. One option would be to use PostScript as an
intermediate, and use Ghostscript to handle the PDF bits, and
post-process the PDF file to add the geospatial bits.

| That said, I'd like to see the Open Source GeoPDF effort go
| forward; I think there's very good value there...

You and me both!

| Brent Fraser

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