Geo .PDF to .tiff has a transparent background colour

[JanC]

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• [x] I checked the documentation and found no answer
• [x] I tried to install after following the suggestions
• [x] I am running the latest version (brew update twice?)
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Describe the bug Converting a .pdf to .tiff using gdal_translate creates a .tiff with transparent background

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Download this 00989I11.PDF
2. run gdal_translate 00989I11.PDF 00989I11.tiff
3. Open the resulting 00989I11.tiff

Expected behavior I would expect the .tiff to have a white color as background as the source PDF does not contain any NoData value

Screenshots Source PDF:

Generated .tiff

Additional context

• gdal version"

gdalinfo --version
GDAL 3.0.4, released 2020/01/28

• The gdalinfo of the .pdf is:

  gdalinfo 00989I11.PDF
  Driver: PDF/Geospatial PDF
  Files: 00989I11.PDF
  Size is 806, 1237
  Coordinate System is:
  PROJCRS["",
      BASEGEOGCRS["NAD83",
          DATUM["North American Datum 1983",
              ELLIPSOID["GRS 1980",6378137,298.2572221,
                  LENGTHUNIT["metre",1]],
              ID["EPSG",6269]],
          PRIMEM["Greenwich",0,
              ANGLEUNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]]],
      CONVERSION["unnamed",
          METHOD["Lambert Conic Conformal (2SP)",
              ID["EPSG",9802]],
          PARAMETER["Latitude of false origin",35.2372777777778,
              ANGLEUNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433],
              ID["EPSG",8821]],
          PARAMETER["Longitude of false origin",-120.642611111111,
              ANGLEUNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433],
              ID["EPSG",8822]],
          PARAMETER["Latitude of 1st standard parallel",45,
              ANGLEUNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433],
              ID["EPSG",8823]],
          PARAMETER["Latitude of 2nd standard parallel",33,
              ANGLEUNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433],
              ID["EPSG",8824]],
          PARAMETER["Easting at false origin",0,
              LENGTHUNIT["Inch",0.0254000508001],
              ID["EPSG",8826]],
          PARAMETER["Northing at false origin",0,
              LENGTHUNIT["Inch",0.0254000508001],
              ID["EPSG",8827]]],
      CS[Cartesian,2],
          AXIS["(E)",east,
              ORDER[1],
              LENGTHUNIT["Inch",0.0254000508001]],
          AXIS["(N)",north,
              ORDER[2],
              LENGTHUNIT["Inch",0.0254000508001]]]
  Data axis to CRS axis mapping: 1,2
  Origin = (-1807172.000000000000000,2042985.000000000000000)
  Pixel Size = (3334.000000000000000,-3335.000000000000000)
  Metadata:
    AUTHOR=
    CREATION_DATE=D:20190718071421-04'00'
    CREATOR=MicroStation 8.11.9.867 by Bentley Systems, Incorporated
    NEATLINE=POLYGON ((-1487388.02470535 -1654179.3669621,563048.661741154 -1654193.12139478,563073.777508997 1615063.22966106,-1487370.34966788 1615075.17034221,-1487388.02470535 -1654179.3669621))
    PRODUCER=Adobe PDF Library 9.0
    TITLE=00989I11
  Corner Coordinates:
  Upper Left  (-1807172.000, 2042985.000) (121d 9' 6.29"W, 35d42'19.70"N)
  Lower Left  (-1807172.000,-2082410.000) (121d 8'43.15"W, 34d45'28.56"N)
  Upper Right (  880032.000, 2042985.000) (120d23'40.84"W, 35d42'22.90"N)
  Lower Right (  880032.000,-2082410.000) (120d23'52.11"W, 34d45'31.72"N)
  Center      ( -463570.000,  -19712.500) (120d46'20.58"W, 35d13'57.63"N)
  Band 1 Block=806x1 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Red
    Overviews: 403x619, 202x310, 101x155
    Mask Flags: PER_DATASET ALPHA 
    Overviews of mask band: 403x619, 202x310, 101x155
  Band 2 Block=806x1 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Green
    Overviews: 403x619, 202x310, 101x155
    Mask Flags: PER_DATASET ALPHA 
    Overviews of mask band: 403x619, 202x310, 101x155
  Band 3 Block=806x1 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Blue
    Overviews: 403x619, 202x310, 101x155
    Mask Flags: PER_DATASET ALPHA 
    Overviews of mask band: 403x619, 202x310, 101x155
  Band 4 Block=806x1 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Alpha
    Overviews: 403x619, 202x310, 101x155

• The same command with the same input file creates a .tiff with a white color when using the Linux version of gdal:

docker run -ti --rm  osgeo/gdal  gdalinfo --version
GDAL 3.1.0dev-2fde97fd57bbd892781f89323499528c5821dea4, released 2020/04/25

docker run -ti --rm -v $(pwd):/data osgeo/gdal  gdal_translate /data/00989I11.PDF /data/00989I11_linux.tiff

Linux output:

brew doctor output:

brew doctor
Your system is ready to brew.

[alazarolop]

Hi @JanC thank you for thoroughly describing your problem. Within Docker you are using a different GDAL version (3.1.0dev > 3.0.4), could you reproduce the issue using the same GDAL version?

[JanC]

hi, I've just tried with Ubuntu docker where I manually installed the gdal 3.0.4 and the result there is the same (correct white background)

gdalinfo --version
GDAL 3.0.4, released 2020/01/28

gdal_translate 00989I11.PDF 00989I11_linux_3.0.4.tiff

Input file size is 807, 1237
proj_uom_get_info_from_database: unit of measure not found
0...10...20...30...40...50...60...70...80...90...100 - done.

[alazarolop]

@JanC I can't reproduce it at this moment. I think you could get a better support from GDAL repository https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues as it's related to the tool itself.

[JanC]

I can't reproduce it at this moment.

Do you mean that the same input .pdf file produces a .tiff with a white background on your side?

ok, I'll open a ticket in that repo

[alazarolop]

No, unfortunately I can't try the example at this moment because I don't have access to my testing installation. Could you please link the new issue you open, so anyone con follow up the thread?

[JanC]

See link above.

[alazarolop]

Great, thank you. `osgeo-gdal is built with both Pdfium and Poppler, so the behavior would be the expected considering the answer, did you solution fix your issue then?

[JanC]

yeah the GDAL_PDF_BANDS config options works.

gdal_translate 00989I11.PDF 00989I11.tiff --config GDAL_PDF_BANDS 3

👍

So I'm closing the ticket