I followed this [post][1], the first answer, to clip a USGS Quad in order to remove the borders so that I can tile them. Basically it utilized the lat/long at the corners in a .txt file to import a rectangle using "add delimited text layer". I then reproject the rectangle to match the CRS of the USGS quad. After I clip it I get black edges, see image. 

![black corners][2]

I offered the error as a comment in the aforementioned post and it was answered that its likely from re-projecting the rectangle and that I should use -dstalpha or -dstnodata to make it white. When I use those two options, I just get a colored rectangle. I actually want that area transparent for when I tile multiple USGS Quad maps. I even tried to re-project the quad map to the CRS of the rectangle.

Does anyone know how I can clip the USGS quad without having the black corners for tiling pruposes? FYI... I am using QGIS 2.2 on Windows 7.


  [1]: http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/74980/cropping-and-transforming-geopdf-with-gdalwarp
  [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/iVlfl.png