To find the full path, this may work - open Terminal and type:
which pdftotext
and it should display the path to the copy of pdftotext that the OS runs
when you type the 'pdftotext' command.
Phil Davis
On 1/12/20 2:00 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote:
My guess is that shell can’t find your executable. Try using full paths.
Thanks,
Brian
On Jan 12, 2020, 2:54 PM -0500, Hillen Richard via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
Hello,
I want to extract .txt from a pdf-file using Livecode 9.5 on macOS Catalina.
Therefore I installed from http://www.xpdfreader.com/
the xpdf-tools-mac-4.02
and using the Terminal with „pdftotext /Users/hillen/Desktop/inter.pdf“
I get a clean text-file inter.txt. Wonderful!
So I hopefully wrote in Livecode:
——————
put "/users/hillen/Desktop/inter.pdf" into fn
put "pdftotext " & fn into Kommando
if there is not a file fn then
answer „no SourceFile!"
exit to top
end if
get shell(quote & Kommando & quote)
answer it & return & the result
——————
But extracting doesn´t work and I get the answer:
/bin/sh: line 1: pdftotext /users ……pdf: No such file or directory
and the result ist 127.
Typing to Terminal „pdftotext“ I get a List with command-options.
With
get shell(„pdftotext“) with and without quotes
I get the answer „/bin/sh: line 1: pdftotext: command not found“
What is wrong? May you please help?
Richard.
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