Re: How to extract whole text from a PDF file with the PDF widget?

Yes, I am familiar with the XPDF external (based on Google's PDFium library), having designed it and paid Monte to code it and then turned it over to LiveCode. I was referring to the PDF Widget (also based on Google's PDFium), which should have a comparable property for fetching the text of a

Re: How to extract whole text from a PDF file with the PDF widget?

Paul, here on mac OS the dictionary of LC 10 DP1 definitely lists the function XPDFViewer_Text(viewerName, pageNumber). Btw. checking this showed me that this function seems to be deprecated and instead the command XPDFViewer_Unicode viewerName, pageNumber, variableName should be

Re: How to extract whole text from a PDF file with the PDF widget?

There must be an undocumented property for the text of a page - there was a function to return the full text of a page in the External (XPDF) and to get the full text of the PDF file, you just stepped through the pages (1..N) getting and concatenating the page text. Monte? LC 10.0.0

Re: How to extract whole text from a PDF file with the PDF widget?

Hi Torsten, i think the PDF widget does not support extracting text by code. At least the documentation does not show any information about this. You wrote, that you have a business license. That would mean, that you can use the Pro features of Livecode. There is an external included in the

How to extract whole text from a PDF file with the PDF widget?

Hi, I have a PDF file with text and pictures, but I just want the text. I can do it manually with Ctrl-A and Ctrl-Copy by viewing the file with Preview on MacOS. I have a business licence and want to use the PDF widget but I cannot find a way to do it. Can someone help me out? Cheers,

Re: Record audio on Mac

Hi all, > Am 10.12.2021 um 14:02 schrieb Klaus major-k via use-livecode > : > > Hi all, > > There is an entry in the dictionary -> record sound... > But that obviously relies on Quicktime. > And then there is this in the "Release Notes": > ... > 64-bit standalones for Mac OS X do not have

OT Re: Record audio on Mac

Marc, we can tell you're not in the UK. Right now, the phrase that "I have been assured" has quite low credibility on this side of the Atlantic! Ben On 10/12/2021 14:14, Marc Siskin via use-livecode wrote: I have been reasonably assured that in LC 10 there will be a simplified/unified way

Re: Forum Down?

OK. All back to normal, Funny how annoyed I get when a modern miracle does not quite perform the way I want it to. Craig > On Dec 9, 2021, at 10:14 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi Craig, > >> Am 09.12.2021 um 16:11 schrieb Craig Newman via use-livecode >> : >> >> Could

Re: Record audio on Mac

I have been reasonably assured that in LC 10 there will be a simplified/unified way to record audio and/or video on most platforms. This has been in progress for several years. I am looking forward to this returned functionality. Marc Siskin Learning Engineer, Carnegie Mellon University

Re: Record audio on Mac

Hi Panos, > Am 10.12.2021 um 15:03 schrieb panagiotis m via use-livecode > : > > Hello Klaus, > > You can use the camera control: > cameraControlDo tCamera, "startRecording", thank you, so we can use it for recording audio only? Cool. Will have to read up that entry in the dictionary.

Re: Record audio on Mac

Hello Klaus, You can use the camera control: cameraControlDo tCamera, "startRecording", Cheers, Panos -- On Fri, 10 Dec 2021 at 15:02, Klaus major-k via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > There is an entry in the dictionary -> record sound... > But that

Record audio on Mac

Hi all, There is an entry in the dictionary -> record sound... But that obviously relies on Quicktime. And then there is this in the "Release Notes": ... 64-bit standalones for Mac OS X do not have support for audio recording. ... Does that mean we do not have a way to record a sound with LC?