Re: Shell script to convert TIFF to PDF under Mountain Lion

2012-09-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
I barely squeaked in under the wire with my "obsolete" early 2008 Macbook Pro! Bob On Sep 1, 2012, at 6:39 AM, Bruce Pokras wrote: > Sorry, Mark, I don't know the answer to that. I don't have Mountain Lion and, > in fact, cannot run ML on my "ancient" iMac from 2006. How would that work? __

Re: Shell script to convert TIFF to PDF under Mountain Lion

2012-09-01 Thread Mark Schonewille
Sorry Bruce, I made a mistake. I mean sips https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/sips.1.html -- Kind regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Http://economy-x-talk.com Share the clipboard of your computer over a local network with Clipboard Link h

Re: Shell script to convert TIFF to PDF under Mountain Lion

2012-09-01 Thread Bruce Pokras
Sorry, Mark, I don't know the answer to that. I don't have Mountain Lion and, in fact, cannot run ML on my "ancient" iMac from 2006. How would that work? On Aug 30, 2012, at 10:18 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi Bruce, > > Can't you use pids anymore under mountain lion? > > -- > Kind regards

Re: Shell script to convert TIFF to PDF under Mountain Lion

2012-08-31 Thread Bob Sneidar
Brilliant Bruce! Good work! Bob On Aug 30, 2012, at 5:47 PM, Bruce Pokras wrote: > So in Livecode all you have to do is use: > > put "/usr/sbin/cupsfilter" into tConvertApp > get shell(tConvertApp && "-i image/tiff " & quote & tiffFile & quote) > > and "it" should contain the data from which

Re: Shell script to convert TIFF to PDF under Mountain Lion

2012-08-30 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Bruce, Can't you use pids anymore under mountain lion? -- Kind regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Http://economy-x-talk.com Share the clipboard of your computer over a local network with Clipboard Link http://clipboardlink.economy-x-talk.com Op 31 aug. 2012 om 02:47 heeft Bruce Pokr

Shell script to convert TIFF to PDF under Mountain Lion

2012-08-30 Thread Bruce Pokras
Last week I posted about a problem converting TIFF images to PDF under Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion). The old shell script that Ken Ray had posted several years ago and which had worked from Tiger through Lion simply did not work under Mountain Lion. That script used a shell command called "Conv