| 1 | | I'm afraid this is not easily possible. GDAL really needs access to low-level PDF structure manipulation: objects, dictionaries, streams, etc. It doesn't just need to display an image. So well that could be possible if Poppler expose those API in the public API, but I'm not sure upstream poppler would be so enthousiastic about that (I might have spoken with them a few years ago, but I'm not sure), and even if they wouldn't object the idea, |
| | 1 | I'm afraid this is not easily possible. GDAL really needs access to low-level PDF structure manipulation: objects, dictionaries, streams, etc. It doesn't just need to display an image. So well that could be possible if Poppler expose those API in the public API, but I'm not sure upstream poppler would be so enthousiastic about that (I might have spoken with them a few years ago, but I'm not sure), and even if they wouldn't object the idea, I'm not sure if they would implement that themselves just to make GDAL happy. And honestly I don't have the funding to contribute that myself to the Poppler community. |
