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gdal_translate is rasterizing the output, you can increase the quality of the raster output by increasing the DPI with a config or open option

--config GDAL_PDF_DPI=300 

or

-oo DPI=300 

Default resolution:

300 DPI:

A couple of alternatives:

• you can retain vector layers with ogr2ogr but you'll get much worse quality visually as the marginalia, symbology and drawing order gets messed up.

• you can (depending on your PDF viewer) just open the layers side panel and turn the ortho off in the original PDF so it doesn't display, e.g:

gdal_translate is rasterizing the output, you can increase the quality of the raster output by increasing the DPI with a config or open option

--config GDAL_PDF_DPI=300 

or

-oo DPI=300 

E.g:

gdal_translate --config GDAL_PDF_DPI=300 --config GDAL_PDF_LAYERS_OFF "Image" Blacksburg_geo.pdf Blacksburg.pdf 

Default resolution:

300 DPI:

A couple of alternatives:

• you can retain vector layers with ogr2ogr but you'll get much worse quality visually as the marginalia, symbology and drawing order gets messed up.

• you can (depending on your PDF viewer) just open the layers side panel and turn the ortho off in the original PDF so it doesn't display, e.g:

gdal_translate is rasterizing the output, you can increase the quality of the raster output by increasing the DPI with a config or open option

--config GDAL_PDF_DPI=300 

or

-oo DPI=300 

Default resolution:

300 DPI:

A couple of alternatives:

• you can retain vector layers with ogr2ogr but you'll get much worse quality visually as the marginalia, symbology and drawing order gets messed up.

• you can (depending on your PDF viewer) just open the layers side panel and turn the ortho off in the original PDF so it doesn't display, e.g:

gdal_translate is rasterizing the output, you can increase the quality of the raster output by increasing the DPI with a config or open option

--config GDAL_PDF_DPI=300 

or

-oo DPI=300 

Default resolution:

300 DPI:

A couple of alternatives:

• you can retain vector layers with ogr2ogr but you'll get much worse quality visually as the marginalia, symbology and drawing order gets messed up.

• you can (depending on your PDF viewer) just open the layers side panel and turn the ortho off in the original PDF so it doesn't display, e.g:

gdal_translate is rasterizing the the output, you can increase the quality of the raster output by increasing the DPI with a config or open option

--config GDAL_PDF_DPI=300 

or

-oo DPI=300 

Default resolution:

300 DPI:

A couple of alternatives:

• you can retain vector layers with ogr2ogr but you'll get much worse quality visually as the marginalia, symbology and drawing order gets messed up.

• you can (depending on your PDF viewer) just open the layers side panel and turn the ortho off in the original PDF so it doesn't display, e.g:

gdal_translate is rasterizing the output, you can increase the quality of the raster output by increasing the DPI with a config or open option

--config GDAL_PDF_DPI=300 

or

-oo DPI=300 

Default resolution:

300 DPI:

A couple of alternatives:

• you can retain vector layers with ogr2ogr but you'll get much worse quality visually as the marginalia, symbology and drawing order gets messed up.

• you can (depending on your PDF viewer) just open the layers side panel and turn the ortho off in the original PDF so it doesn't display, e.g: