On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Tom Russo <ru...@bogodyn.org> wrote: > >> >> <snip> > >> Without the imagery, you don't need the high DPI that will be used by >> default, >> and so the thing processes much, much quicker (less than a minute, vs. >> more >> than 40 minutes). And instead of a 100+MB file, you get a 26MB file. >> The result looks very, very nice. >> >> > > Thanks, Tom, for all the detailed feedback, which is not out of character > :-) > > I thought building gdal from source might be required given I had to do > that last time. > > Back then I had aspirations of documenting step by step what it took to > convert and use those maps but never got to it. At that time they came out > a little dark but were still very usable. It sounds like the newer > geoPDF's may convert into nicer looking maps. I'm off to try the FTP site > from your other message so I can take a look. > I took a look, and the map does look great. The goal now is to get conversion working for me and plug them into Xastir. I'll post a link to a screen shot of Xastir using them when I have it up and running. BR, Lee - K5DAT _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir