Re: PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8
2013/9/18 Ray Horsley r...@linkit.com So there's apparently no solution to this seemingly common need to be able to view and convert PDF files to single PNG's or JPEG's in Livecode. Suggestions? Hi Ray, There is a free pdf reader for Win32 / Win64 there: http://www.soraxsoft.com/index.html and they have a Sorax PDF SDK DLL too. A couple of years ago, I've built an external which roughly creates an image object in LC out of a pdf page, using their DLL. If you are interested, just let me know. Regards, Thierry Thierry Douez - http://sunny-tdz.com Maker of sunnYperl - sunnYmidi - sunnYmage ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8
Just to say that I can endorse Thierry's external, which I'm using in a commercial product. I have not in fact tried it on Windows 8, but it should be fine as it works in Windows 7 and XP - if Thierry says it will work with Windows 8, I'm sure it will. It does exactly what I needed it to do, which is to make a bitmap within a PDF (in my case a geographical map) available to LiveCode. My product really doesn't need a Mac or a Linux version, but I must say it would be good if a robust cross-platform solution were available. I think it would be possible to code one entirely natively, but it would be a big job. One day... In fact there is a cross-platform program out there in the Open Source world, ImageMagick, but in my case I couldn't reconcile either the licensing terms or the way one was supposed to integrate it (or not) into one's product with what I needed, so Thierry came to my rescue. HTH Graham On 23 Sep 2013, at 08:53, Thierry Douez wrote: 2013/9/18 Ray Horsley r...@linkit.com So there's apparently no solution to this seemingly common need to be able to view and convert PDF files to single PNG's or JPEG's in Livecode. Suggestions? Hi Ray, There is a free pdf reader for Win32 / Win64 there: http://www.soraxsoft.com/index.html and they have a Sorax PDF SDK DLL too. A couple of years ago, I've built an external which roughly creates an image object in LC out of a pdf page, using their DLL. If you are interested, just let me know. Regards, Thierry Thierry Douez - http://sunny-tdz.com Maker of sunnYperl - sunnYmidi - sunnYmage ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8
Hello Graham, 2013/9/23 Graham Samuel livf...@mac.com Just to say that I can endorse Thierry's external, which I'm using in a commercial product. I have not in fact tried it on Windows 8, but it should be fine as it works in Windows 7 and XP - if Thierry says it will work with Windows 8, I'm sure it will. It does exactly what I needed it to do, which is to make a bitmap within a PDF (in my case a geographical map) available to LiveCode. Thanks for your endorsement. Actually, I've never tried it on Windows 8, but considering the code of the external, this should not be a problem. ( don't have a win8 box here ) My product really doesn't need a Mac or a Linux version, but I must say it would be good if a robust cross-platform solution were available. I think it would be possible to code one entirely natively, but it would be a big job. One day... In fact there is a cross-platform program out there in the Open Source world, ImageMagick, but in my case I couldn't reconcile either the licensing terms or the way one was supposed to integrate it (or not) into one's product with what I needed, so Thierry came to my rescue. HTH Graham On 23 Sep 2013, at 08:53, Thierry Douez wrote: 2013/9/18 Ray Horsley r...@linkit.com So there's apparently no solution to this seemingly common need to be able to view and convert PDF files to single PNG's or JPEG's in Livecode. Suggestions? Hi Ray, There is a free pdf reader for Win32 / Win64 there: http://www.soraxsoft.com/index.html and they have a Sorax PDF SDK DLL too. A couple of years ago, I've built an external which roughly creates an image object in LC out of a pdf page, using their DLL. If you are interested, just let me know. Regards, Thierry Thierry Douez - http://sunny-tdz.com Maker of sunnYperl - sunnYmidi - sunnYmage ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8
Hi Thierry, I too could use such a great external. We use PDFs extensively, and it has been an ongoing need to access them with LiveCode (on Windows). Do you plan to market your external to the LiveCode Community? One question: Does it offer any control over the bitmap resolution? ~Roger On Sep 23, 2013 7:10 AM, Thierry Douez th.do...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Graham, 2013/9/23 Graham Samuel livf...@mac.com Just to say that I can endorse Thierry's external, which I'm using in a commercial product. I have not in fact tried it on Windows 8, but it should be fine as it works in Windows 7 and XP - if Thierry says it will work with Windows 8, I'm sure it will. It does exactly what I needed it to do, which is to make a bitmap within a PDF (in my case a geographical map) available to LiveCode. Thanks for your endorsement. Actually, I've never tried it on Windows 8, but considering the code of the external, this should not be a problem. ( don't have a win8 box here ) My product really doesn't need a Mac or a Linux version, but I must say it would be good if a robust cross-platform solution were available. I think it would be possible to code one entirely natively, but it would be a big job. One day... In fact there is a cross-platform program out there in the Open Source world, ImageMagick, but in my case I couldn't reconcile either the licensing terms or the way one was supposed to integrate it (or not) into one's product with what I needed, so Thierry came to my rescue. HTH Graham On 23 Sep 2013, at 08:53, Thierry Douez wrote: 2013/9/18 Ray Horsley r...@linkit.com So there's apparently no solution to this seemingly common need to be able to view and convert PDF files to single PNG's or JPEG's in Livecode. Suggestions? Hi Ray, There is a free pdf reader for Win32 / Win64 there: http://www.soraxsoft.com/index.html and they have a Sorax PDF SDK DLL too. A couple of years ago, I've built an external which roughly creates an image object in LC out of a pdf page, using their DLL. If you are interested, just let me know. Regards, Thierry Thierry Douez - http://sunny-tdz.com Maker of sunnYperl - sunnYmidi - sunnYmage ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8
Hi Roger, Sure, you can get it. And about the bitmap resolution, yes, it works but again, as I did this job a couple of years ago, I have to dig in this project for the details, which I can't right now. Please, contact me off-list for more info. Kind regards, Thierry 2013/9/23 Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.com Hi Thierry, I too could use such a great external. We use PDFs extensively, and it has been an ongoing need to access them with LiveCode (on Windows). Do you plan to market your external to the LiveCode Community? One question: Does it offer any control over the bitmap resolution? ~Roger On Sep 23, 2013 7:10 AM, Thierry Douez th.do...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Graham, 2013/9/23 Graham Samuel livf...@mac.com Just to say that I can endorse Thierry's external, which I'm using in a commercial product. I have not in fact tried it on Windows 8, but it should be fine as it works in Windows 7 and XP if Thierry says it will work with Windows 8, I'm sure it will. It does exactly what I needed it to do Thanks for your endorsement. Actually, I've never tried it on Windows 8, but considering the code of the external, this should not be a problem. ( don't have a win8 box here ) HTH Graham On 23 Sep 2013, at 08:53, Thierry Douez wrote: 2013/9/18 Ray Horsley r...@linkit.com So there's apparently no solution to this seemingly common need to be able to view and convert PDF files to single PNG's or JPEG's in Livecode. Suggestions? Hi Ray, There is a free pdf reader for Win32 / Win64 there: http://www.soraxsoft.com/index.html and they have a Sorax PDF SDK DLL too. A couple of years ago, I've built an external which roughly creates an image object in LC out of a pdf page, using their DLL. If you are interested, just let me know. Thierry Douez - http://sunny-tdz.com Maker of sunnYperl - sunnYmidi - sunnYmage ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8
In the past I have used pre-rolled command line utilities for that. I am not sure if this is the specific one I use, but I used imagemagick before to accomplish this as well. http://www.pdftron.com/pdf2image/ That particular utility is cross platform i believe. Andrew On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Ray Horsley r...@linkit.com wrote: Sorry to bring this topic back up again but it seems there's no solution for this. Installing QuickTime on Windows does not display PDF's in a player object. This is odd since this works wonderfully on a Mac. Yrying to display PDF's in a browser object opens Adobe's Reader which, in Windows' very blunt way, hogs the entire screen burdening the user with lots of work just to get back to LiveCode. Even if this worked I'm not sure how I'd determine the number of pages and move through them to get the snapshots. Quartam Software has a nice PDF package but it only does the opposite by creating PDF files in Livecode. So there's apparently no solution to this seemingly common need to be able to view and convert PDF files to single PNG's or JPEG's in Livecode. Suggestions? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Regards, Andrew Kluthe and...@ctech.me ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.comwrote: This software can be controlled by LiveCode using shell commands to its command-line interface. http://www.softinterface.com/Convert-PDF-To-Image/Convert-PDF-To-Tiff.htm Windows only. -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:27 PM, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.com wrote: This software can be controlled by LiveCode using shell commands to its command-line interface. http://www.softinterface.com/Convert-PDF-To-Image/Convert-PDF-To-Tiff.htm Windows only. Yep. That would seem to meet the requirement of the request by the OP: PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8. -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA ~Roger ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Andrew Kluthe and...@ctech.me wrote: In the past I have used pre-rolled command line utilities for that. I am not sure if this is the specific one I use, but I used imagemagick before to accomplish this as well. Also, imageMagick is under a non-viral license, so you could compile the subset you need so ship along with commercial code. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.comwrote: Yep. That would seem to meet the requirement of the request by the OP: PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8. my reasoning was to include that info in the archives to save someone time in a search for Mac or x-platform situation. -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 4:48 PM, stephen barncard wrote: On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Roger Eller wrote: Yep. That would seem to meet the requirement of the request by the OP: PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8. my reasoning was to include that info in the archives to save someone time in a search for Mac or x-platform situation. I agree, whenever possible x-plat code is preferred. I wish it were possible more often. -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA ~Roger ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8
Many thanks for these suggestions! With PDF's being used so broadly does anybody else feel that this would be a worthwhile addition to Livecode? Imagine simply being able to read a PDF file into an array, or being able to write an array out to a file to create a PDF. On Sep 18, 2013, at 4:52 PM, Roger Eller wrote: On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 4:48 PM, stephen barncard wrote: On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Roger Eller wrote: Yep. That would seem to meet the requirement of the request by the OP: PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8. my reasoning was to include that info in the archives to save someone time in a search for Mac or x-platform situation. I agree, whenever possible x-plat code is preferred. I wish it were possible more often. -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA ~Roger ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Ray Horsley r...@linkit.com wrote: Many thanks for these suggestions! With PDF's being used so broadly does anybody else feel that this would be a worthwhile addition to Livecode? Imagine simply being able to read a PDF file into an array, or being able to write an array out to a file to create a PDF. I think it's critical--my output *must* be pdf :) I particularly need to be able to stick an external pdf page in between pages of my pdf output -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
