Re: PDF to Image Conversion

2013-10-08 Thread Ray Horsley
The only way I know to do so is via a QuickTime Player object. This works somewhat well on a Mac and not at all on Windows when it comes to going through all the pages and capturing the image data. On 10/7/2013 8:51 PM, william humphrey wrote: Can PDF's be embedded in a Livecode card like a p

Re: PDF to Image Conversion

2013-10-08 Thread Alan Stenhouse
Hi Ray You probably know these bits already - they're unfortunately also not X-platform: 1. Have you tried sipsfrom the command line on OSX? e.g. sips -s format png mypdf.pdf --out myimage.png 2. Maybe Irfanview on Windows. Apparently it has command-line options. cheers Alan -- Alan

Re: PDF to Image Conversion

2013-10-07 Thread Roger Eller
Several years ago, I remember mentioned here of someone using a browser object to display a PDF "in an invisible stack", so I use the word "display" loosely. Then by some command, the browsers imageData was being captured into LiveCode. I wish I knew more about how it was done, because I often ne

Re: PDF to Image Conversion

2013-10-07 Thread william humphrey
Can PDF's be embedded in a Livecode card like a png or jpg can now? On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Ray Horsley wrote: > This seems like such an old topic but I've yet to find a good solution. > Quicktime works in a limited way and it's also a Mac only solution. > Regarding cross platform sol

PDF to Image Conversion

2013-10-07 Thread Ray Horsley
This seems like such an old topic but I've yet to find a good solution. Quicktime works in a limited way and it's also a Mac only solution. Regarding cross platform solutions I believe Imagick requires GhostScript which could present both licensing issues as well as a complicated installer pr