Re: Convert PDF's to Images

2014-12-09 Thread Ray
Just a word of thanks to all who have responded to this thread which I started a few days ago. Richmond - I've got the same crash results on the Mac side. Roger - your your suggestion is turning out to be promising. I've gotten in touch with Thierry and I may have a Windows solution through

Re: Convert PDF's to Images

2014-12-09 Thread Richmond
On 08/12/14 22:03, Jim Lambert wrote: In earlier versions of LiveCode on a Mac, you could just load a PDF into a Player object. Then just set the current time to page through the document and grab screenshots to get images of the pages. But this doesn’t work anymore. JimL

Re: Convert PDF's to Images

2014-12-08 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Ray wrote: > > About a year ago I solicited suggestions for a command line tool, Mac and > Windows, I could license which would return the number of pages in a PDF as > well as convert it to images at various resolutions. > There are a few of these. ImageMagik, j

Re: Convert PDF's to Images

2014-12-08 Thread Roger Eller
@lists.runrev.com > Cc: > Subject: Re: Convert PDF's to Images > > In earlier versions of LiveCode on a Mac, you could just load a PDF into a > Player object. > Then just set the current time to page through the document and grab > screenshots to get i

Re: Convert PDF's to Images

2014-12-08 Thread ray
I know:)  I was using that method for a while but it was never really solid and now it's kind of petered out... Original message From: Jim Lambert Date:12/08/2014 5:03 PM (GMT-04:00) To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Cc: Subject: Re: Convert PDF's to I

Re: Convert PDF's to Images

2014-12-08 Thread Jim Lambert
In earlier versions of LiveCode on a Mac, you could just load a PDF into a Player object. Then just set the current time to page through the document and grab screenshots to get images of the pages. But this doesn’t work anymore. JimL ___ use-livecode

RE: Convert PDF's to Images

2014-12-08 Thread Ralph DiMola
:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Richard Gaskin Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 1:08 PM To: LiveCode List Subject: Re: Convert PDF's to Images Ralph DiMola wrote: > I think this was a v8 widget target. I don't remember if this is > planned for a v7 version.

Re: Convert PDF's to Images

2014-12-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ralph DiMola wrote: I think this was a v8 widget target. I don't remember if this is planned for a v7 version. Richard, Do you have any insight? I don't. I know a PDF reader was one of the examples shown in Kevin's video, but that's as much as I know about that specific widget. Do you hav

RE: Convert PDF's to Images

2014-12-08 Thread Ralph DiMola
-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Ray Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 11:29 AM To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: Convert PDF's to Images Ralph, This is very exciting news for me regarding this front. How can I learn more and stay on top of this? Thanks, Ray On 12/8/2014 1:06 PM, Ra

Re: Convert PDF's to Images

2014-12-08 Thread Ray
Ralph, This is very exciting news for me regarding this front. How can I learn more and stay on top of this? Thanks, Ray On 12/8/2014 1:06 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote: Ray, I talked to Mark about PDFs and LC @rr14. The Foxit PDF library has been chosen by Google and is open source. RR plans to

RE: Convert PDF's to Images

2014-12-08 Thread Ralph DiMola
Ray, I talked to Mark about PDFs and LC @rr14. The Foxit PDF library has been chosen by Google and is open source. RR plans to make the API available cross-platform(including mobile). I don't know the implementation schedule. >From Foxit Web Page: FoxitR Corporation, a leading provider of solutio