Export PDF layers from QGIS map composers

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Author Name: Asier Sarasua (@asiersarasua)
Original Redmine Issue: 9362

Redmine category:map_composer/printing

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As in the attached image.

PDF layers are formally known as Optional Content Groups.

"They represent a collection of graphic objects that can be made visible or invisible. Any graphic content of the PDF can be made optional, including page contents, XObjects, and annotations." Reference:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/API_References/Acrobat_API_Reference/PD_Layer/PDOCG.html

This feature would give the ability to open a PDF (generated from the QGIS composer) in Acrobat and enable/disable the visibility of layers.

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• PDFlayers.png (Asier Sarasua)
• qgis_geopdf.png (Asier Sarasua)
• qgis_geopdf_2.png (Asier Sarasua)

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Related issue(s): #17477 (duplicates)
Redmine related issue(s): 8771

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Author Name: Jukka Rahkonen (Jukka Rahkonen)

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Feels the same as #17477 speaks about geopdf but it would be more safe to call it as geospatial pdf because GeoPDF is a trade mark.

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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To note that QGIS "can" already export (from the canvas, not the composer) as geopdf: the format is supported in gdal/ogr used by qgis, so it would be possible to export using the "save as..." vector function or the translate tool in the raster menu. But as far as I can see the "geopdf" format is not listed in the gui comboboxes.

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• fixed_version_id was configured as Future Release - Nice to have

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Author Name: Simon W (Simon W)

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Can we get a status on this or 8771?

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Author Name: Nyall Dawson (@nyalldawson)

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Simon - nothing to report, as far as I'm aware no one is currently tackling this issue.

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Author Name: Asier Sarasua (@asiersarasua)

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@giovanni

As GDAL 1.10 supports GeoPDF, I successfully exported a PDF with layers (a raster layer and a polyline vector layer) from Processing inserting a OGR_DATASOURCE parameter in the "Additional creation parameters" box to add the vector layer. However, it only exports vectors without style. I have to investigate more into this[1][2].

[1]http://www.gdal.org/frmt_pdf.html
[2]http://www.gdal.org/ogr_feature_style.html

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• 8505 was configured as qgis_geopdf_2.png
• 8504 was configured as qgis_geopdf.png

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• qgis_geopdf_2.png (Asier Sarasua) - Output GeoPDF
• qgis_geopdf.png (Asier Sarasua) - GDAL translate in Proccessing

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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Asier Sarasua wrote:

@giovanni

As GDAL 1.10 supports GeoPDF, I successfully exported a PDF with layers (a raster layer and a polyline vector layer) f

Hi,

yes this is expected beside the lack of options in QGIS gui.

The ticket is more about the possibility to export a map from the QGIS composer as geopdf.

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Author Name: Luca Delucchi (Luca Delucchi)

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Hi,

I'm working on a plugin to create GeospatialPDF (not that real GeoPDF because is proprietary format) from raster and vector data loaded into QGIS, but not from QGIS composer.
I tried to investigate a little bit more about this possibility but I didn't find any good solution.

The plugin is close to be released (I hope in two/three weeks) and will have the following capabilities:

• export raster and styled vector (probably all the three QGIS symbol style)
• most of the GeospatialPDF "Creation Options" [0] are supported
• support for legend/scalebar/images and choose their position in the GeospatialPDF.

[0] http://www.gdal.org/frmt_pdf.html

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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see also #17477

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• status_id was changed from Open to Closed

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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see also #17477

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• status_id was changed from Closed to Open

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Author Name: James Wilson (James Wilson)

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If you want to make a Georeferenced PDF for Avenza:

Set up your print composer, and export it as a georeferenced image
(https://docs.qgis.org/2.6/en/docs/user_manual/print_composer/print_composer.html#creating-output)
Bring this back into your project as use Raster > Conversion > Translate
to export it as a georeferenced PDF

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Author Name: amedeo fadini (amedeo fadini)

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I'm also interested in this feature: the planned use case is to distribute a PDF map or atlas in PDF format and give to the final user the chance to print the whole map or only the layers of interest.

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• easy_fix was configured as 0

[nyalldawson]

Implemented in 3.10