Bruce, if i remember right, but i could be wrong, then convert was just a symlink for cupsfilter.
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/cupsfilter.8.html Regards, Matthias Am 26.08.2012 um 23:08 schrieb Bruce Pokras <bruc...@comcast.net>: > Hello all! > > I develop an application called Patent Grabber that downloads patents from > various US and international patent authorities. Unlike many other > authorities that provide patent pages in PDF, the US Patent & Trademark > Office (USPTO) provides patent pages in TIFF. From Tiger through Lion, the > following script (which I believe came from a member of this group) has > worked to convert those TIFF images into PDF pages: > > put "/System/Library/Printers/Libraries/convert" into tConvertApp > get shell(tConvertApp && "-f" && quote & tiffFile & quote && "-o" && quote & > pdfFile & quote && "-j application/pdf 2>&1") > > Now under Mountain Lion this script has stopped working. Users of my > application who have upgraded to Mountain Lion are left with a folder full of > TIFFs and an error message from my application that it could not find any > PDFs to combine into the final single PDF patent file. Does anyone have an > idea what could be happening? > > Since foreign patent authorities provide patent pages in PDF, I know that the > other shell script that Patent Grabber uses (which combines multiple PDF > pages into a single PDF file) works fine. I think that should rule out this > being a Mountain Lion security issue as a result of my application being > unsigned, right??? Everything is going on in the Documents folder. > > Any insights would be greatly appreciated. My 2006 iMac cannot run Mountain > Lion, so I cannot simply do the upgrade to see what is going on. > > Regards, > > Bruce Pokras > Blazing Dawn Software > www.blazingdawn.com > _______________________________________________ > 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
