I have a couple of suggestions (although I am not sure either will work as smoothly as Graham wants, but my still be worth a try).
1. display the pdf in a browser control, snapshot the window, present the snapshot to the user to crop to just the image. 2. assuming that there is a linux solution (I've used pdf2txt or some such on Linux to extract the text out of 1000 page pdf files), create your own webservice that will accept a PDF file and a page number, and it returns an image of the page to be cropped by the user. I have created such a web service before which took files in various "office" formats and returned the data from the files (using OpenOffice running headless on the linux server to extract the text). Whilst such a service might seem like a lot of work to setup, it is going to be easier than writing an external or (I would imagine) parsing PostScript (although I do have the PostScript manuals and specification lying around here somewhere in PDF format). You can get your own VPS at Linode for approx $20 a month. Bernard _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
