Hi from beautiful Languedoc-Roussillon,
Francis, this is interesting (particularly as I had never heard of Skim, which
looks like a very useful app) but sadly doesn't work for me because I want a
cross-platform solution that captures bitmaps - the complete opposite of what
you have done.
Incidentally, why didn't you compose your AppleScript script in a field while
you were coding and then just execute it - it seems like hard work to do all
those 'put' commands with quotes and so on spelled out. Or am I missing
something?
The original post offering a solution (from David C.) was "kind of"
cross-platform because it used Adobe Reader which is available on most PCs and
Macs, but not all - and David only seemed to want to show the user the document
in a non-LC window, not manipulate it. Ah well, back to the grindstone...
Thanks for responding.
Graham
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:47:41 +0200, Francis Nugent Dixon <effe...@wanadoo.fr>
wrote:
> Hi from beautiful Brittany,
>
> Graham wrote :
>
>> Where does the PDF page appear? I mean is it in a stack window,
>
>> and could it be manipulated by a LiveCode program ?
>
> The answer is YES !
>
> I may be a little late on this thread, 'cos I've been trying
> to solve the problem myself. I appear to have made progress
> - to whit : pick up a page of a pdf file and get it as text
> into a stack. Save it on an external file, then read it back
> into the stack - Long-winded but effective.
>
> Don't ask me what happens to non-text data in the page - I
> haven't got that far, YET !
>
> After playing about with Skim, and scanning all examples
> available on the net, I think you can do just about anything
> with Skim and AppleScript.
>
> Of course, my example was developed on a MAC.
>
> File "SkimTest1.pdf" contains text ONLY.
> "MyPagesC" is a field containing the required page number.
> "MySkim" is the reception field in my stack
>
> TestStack available on request (save you coding it all up)
>
> Be careful of line wraps.
>
> Best Regards
>
> -Francis
>
>
> put "tell application " & quote & "Skim" & quote into line 1 of
> GVMasterScript
> put "set " & LVDeskTop & " to path to desktop as string" into line
> 2 of GVMasterScript
> put "open (" & LVDeskTop & " & " & quote & "SkimTest1.pdf" & quote
> & ")" into line 3 of GVMasterScript
> put "tell document 1" into line 4 of GVMasterScript
> put char 1 to 3 of field "MyPagesC" into GVPage
> put "go to page " & GVPage into line 5 of GVMasterScript
> put "set " & GVTextData & " to (get text for page " & GVPage & ")"
> into line 6 of GVMasterScript
> put "tell application " & quote & "TextEdit" & quote into line 7
> of GVMasterScript
> put "activate" into line 8 of GVMasterScript
> put "make new document" into line 9 of GVMasterScript
> put "set text of document 1 to GVTextData as text" into line 10 of
> GVMasterScript
> put "save document 1 in (LVDeskTop " & " & " & quote &
> "SkimOut.txt" & quote & ")" into line 11 of GVMasterScript
> put "end tell" into line 12 of GVMasterScript
> put "end tell" into line 13 of GVMasterScript
> put "activate" into line 14 of GVMasterScript
> put "end tell" into line 15 of GVMasterScript
> --
> -- AppleScript is now complete. So execute it !
> --
> do GVMasterScript as AppleScript
> put GVDeskTop & "/" & "SkimOut.txt" into LVSkimName
> if there is a file LVSkimName then
> open file LVSkimName
> put 0 into LVSkimLines
> repeat forever
> read from file LVSkimName until return
> put it into LVInputArea
> if LVInputArea is empty then exit repeat
> add 1 to LVSkimLines
> put LVInputArea into line LVSkimLines of field MySkim
> end repeat
> close file LVSkimName
> show field "MySkim"
> end if
>
> "Nothing should ever be done for the first time !"
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