Hello Graham, 2013/9/23 Graham Samuel <livf...@mac.com>
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. > Thanks for your endorsement. Actually, I've never tried it on Windows 8, but considering the code of the external, this should not be a problem. ( don't have a win8 box here ) > 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