*whines like a whimpering cat at the last prospects of an automated process dwindle into insignficance.*
ho hum. It's interesting that software like acrobat pro and PDFShrink and particularly this one... PDFPen http://smilesoftware.com/PDFpen/index.html ... seem to have the 'open & edit a PDF file' thing down. I wonder if there are any closet LiveCode dev dudes on their teams!!!! On 07/12/2010, at 8:55 AM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: Oh, right. Sorry, I guess I spoke too soon. I haven't actually imported pdf's as images, I always saved the pdf as an image first then imported that. I have a bunch of forms that I fill in that way and I've always been able to set everything up for the user first -- I've never tried to do it "on the fly." Sorry to mislead you.... -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Dec 6, 2010, at 4:41 PM, Richmond wrote: > On 12/06/2010 11:35 PM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: >> If you only want to fill in the stamp and then print the result, what I do >> is import the pdf as an image, > > Wow! Hold it right there! My original 'seed' for this thread was a question > as to how one > could import a PDF as an IMAGE . . . > > . . . Please tell all . . . :) > >> overlay fields wherever I need them, then fill them in by script, and print >> the result. If you want to export it instead of printing it, you could take >> a snapshot of the result and export that as jpg or, I guess, as a pdf file, >> though I'm not sure about the latter, maybe use the pdfLib for that. >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
