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