Hi Thierry, I too could use such a great external. We use PDFs extensively, and it has been an ongoing need to access them with LiveCode (on Windows). Do you plan to market your external to the LiveCode Community?
One question: Does it offer any control over the bitmap resolution? ~Roger On Sep 23, 2013 7:10 AM, "Thierry Douez" <th.do...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
