Sorry, Mark, I don't know the answer to that. I don't have Mountain Lion and, in fact, cannot run ML on my "ancient" iMac from 2006. How would that work?
On Aug 30, 2012, at 10:18 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi Bruce, > > Can't you use pids anymore under mountain lion? > > -- > Kind regards, > > Mark Schonewille > Economy-x-Talk > Http://economy-x-talk.com > > Share the clipboard of your computer over a local network with Clipboard Link > http://clipboardlink.economy-x-talk.com > > > Op 31 aug. 2012 om 02:47 heeft Bruce Pokras <bruc...@comcast.net> het > volgende geschreven: > >> Last week I posted about a problem converting TIFF images to PDF under Mac >> OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion). The old shell script that Ken Ray had posted >> several years ago and which had worked from Tiger through Lion simply did >> not work under Mountain Lion. That script used a shell command called >> "Convert" found at /System/Library/Printers/Libraries/convert. Several list >> members helpfully commented that Convert was no longer included with >> Mountain Lion, but it really was just an alias for another command called >> CUPSfilter. I located and selected Convert and chose "Show original" and it >> took me to /usr/sbin/cupsfilter. >> >> Now the first thing that I tried was to send the same command that I had >> been using with Convert directly to Cupsfilter. That's because I felt that >> since Convert was merely an alias, it was simply passing the command to >> Cupsfilter and Cupsfilter was running it. Wrong! I don't know why, but all I >> got were errors messages in the It variable (or was it The Result). Whatever >> it was, Cupsfilter did not like the command that had worked for Convert. >> >> So I went into the Terminal to try some stuff. First, I tried "cupsfilter" >> and received an example command and a list of options. One of the options >> was -m for the output file MIME type. However, there was no option for an >> input file MIME type. A Google search has led me to believe that Cupsfilter >> could identify the input file MIME type from its file extension. So I tried: >> >> cupsfilter [input file.tif] -m application/pdf [output file.pdf] >> >> What I received was an error message that the command could have only _one_ >> file name! That is very different from using Convert where both the input >> file and output file are named. So, OK, I'll use just the input file name >> and see what happens: >> >> cupsfilter [input file.tif] -m application/pdf >> >> I received different error message that said that cupsfilter could not >> determine the MIME type of the input file. So obviously the .tif extension >> was not being recognized. What to do? Back to Google! >> >> After some fruitless searching I came to a page that had more Cupsfilter >> options than I had seen previously. This one had an _input_ file MIME type >> option, -i (duh!). I also found that PDF was the default output of >> Cupsfilter, so there was no need for the output file MIME type. >> >> So back to the Terminal: >> >> cupsfilter -i image/tiff [input file.tif] >> >> Eureka!! The Terminal window was filled with commands and then a lot of >> gobblygook that started with %PDF and ended with %EOF and a message "INFO: >> cgimagetopdf (PID 35219) exited with no errors." In other words, it returned >> a PDF to the Terminal window! >> >> So upon returning to Livecode, I found that the data was being returned in >> the variable "it" and it was simple to excise just the PDF data from the >> rest and write it to disk as a binfile. I double-clicked the file and up >> popped the PDF image. Whew! >> >> So in Livecode all you have to do is use: >> >> put "/usr/sbin/cupsfilter" into tConvertApp >> get shell(tConvertApp && "-i image/tiff " & quote & tiffFile & quote) >> >> and "it" should contain the data from which you can excise and save your PDF >> file. >> >> 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 _______________________________________________ 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
