Hi,
I’m needing a single Mac/Windows compatible video format for use in the player
control. Is there one or more that will work without any additional plugins? I
couldn’t find a list…
Peter Bogdanoff
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Richard I agree. I have customers that we are nudging toward EPubs for the
reasons you've enumerated but when they see the amount of work involved they
fall back to the "Well our employees are using MSWord and just PDF them.
Tagging them is just too much work". The only ones we're having success wi
R.H. wrote:
> Thank you, Richard, for your enlightening discussion on the ePub
> format and that we should start thinking that direction.
>
> > Given PDF's role as a delivery vehicle, it's most commonly an
> > extra step added to the end of a publishing process.
> >
> > Have you asked that d
Thank you, Richard, for your enlightening discussion on the ePub format
and that we should start thinking that direction.
> Given PDF's role as a delivery vehicle, it's most commonly an extra
step
> added to the end of a publishing process.
> Have you asked that data provider if they have
R.H. wrote:
> To extract text from a PDF document, I am using a command line tool on
> Windows which is available also for Linux based systems called Xpdf.
>
> It was working well, using shell() on LiveCode Community 8x, but
> tested only in the IDE on Windows.
A good tool. Thanks.
> I needed
I ended up using pdftotext, it worked like a charm. (Though I had to look
up how to send it a file list using find.. Too long away from the shell.)
I now have a little app that can do a word search for matching files and
show either the extracted text, or the original pdf using the browser
widget.
I don't think any OS allows an app to insert itself into the user's work
flow like that. Even your own solution requires you to specify it via a hot
key.
Usually we use the native version of interapp communication, which on Mac
is applesccript and on Windows VB. Or you could see if there's an
To extract text from a PDF document, I am using a command line tool on
Windows which is available also for Linux based systems called Xpdf.
It was working well, using shell() on LiveCode Community 8x, but tested
only in the IDE on Windows.
It should work with Linux and Mac as well.
If PDFs just
Since I do not create the stack as a "modal stack" (a command I didn't even
know existed... again, thanks for THAT), then does that make my card (only one
in the app) a "system" window? After read the doc's on "modal stack", I doubt
that I want my stack to become "modal"... even temporarily.
W
