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I am using Windows 10 and QGIS 3.10.5.

I had this issue a few days and thought I had fixed it by cleaning the Registry.

However, it has re-occurred.

I load a PDF into the Georeferencer.

I reference the PDF at a few points and process it to overlay the tiff on my base map.

The output is so garbled as to be unusable. (see image) The image is simply a series of black and white lines of variable width across the image.

The first time this occurred I "fixed" it by cleaning out all the relevant appdata files, by cleaning some QGIS material from the registry and by unistalling and reinstalling etc. I used the georeferencing process a few more times on a different map and it was brilliant.

However, it has reappeared when I have started a new map. In this case I did a number of iterations (5-6) of georeferencing on the same pdf to try and improve the accuracy. In one of these iterations the problem popped up again.

So far, even going back through all the steps I took the first time, I cannot fix the problem.

Georeference output

What caused it this time?

The error seems to be associated with iterations of georeferencing of the same PDF and saving to the same file.

I am obviously going to keep trying to rid myself of the issue, but this time, despite the cleaning I have done, nothing has changed so far.

I am a brand new user and no computer expert and I am still very much in the early days of trying to understand this program.

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instead of trying to enter a .PDF, take the PDF to png or JPEG and check the coordinates, because there may be an error when trying to enter them

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  • Okay - will try it and let you know.
    – Richard
    Commented May 6, 2020 at 4:40
  • I'm glad it worked for you Commented May 6, 2020 at 6:12
  • Unfortunately it didn't work for me. I scanned the paper map again, loaded as a jpeg this time and got exactly the same result.
    – Richard
    Commented May 6, 2020 at 7:14
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    Are you sure you have entered the coordinates correctly, what type of coordinates are you working with? Commented May 6, 2020 at 7:24
  • Manuel. I now understand this a little better, and realise it is probably my confusion about coordinates. I think I have got it sorted in my brain, but I will have a look again tomorrow morning. Thank you for your responses.
    – Richard
    Commented May 6, 2020 at 11:04

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