Thanks Francis - and all the others who have suggested ways to deal with this.
I think I will have to go with launching the pdf documents as a separate process. Seems like that is the only way to get a cross platform solution that will deal with the display of bookmarks without having to spend time writing Livecode scripts. Maybe someone will write an LC plugin to deal with pdf files one day. Judging by the response to my initilial question, seems like there would be enough interest to make it worthwhile. Pete PS I'm still looking at ScreenSteps. They confirm that bookmarks are included in pdf files created from ScreenSteps so I could get the best of both worlds. On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon <effe...@wanadoo.fr>wrote: > Hi from Beautiful Brittany, > > For Pete, Michael, Colin ..... et alia ! > > I think we have been down this road before ! > > This is not a completely internal display of > pdf files within a LiveCode stack, but it's the > closest I could get, and it solves all my needs. > > I have a library of pdf files. I have a LiveCode > stack containing a card for each of the files > I may want to display. On each card, I have > > 1 - The pdf file name within my library, > 2 - A display scale value for the pdf file, > 3 - a field containing a list of page numbers > that may interest me, within the pdf file. > > I select the scale, select a page number and > "open" the pdf file, at a specific page, in an > external window, by building an applescript file > to call the Skim app with the required parameters. > > Warning : Skim is for Macs only ... Life is so hard ! > > NOTE : I have not exploited the potential of all > possible parameters which can be passed to Skim. > > I also found out that if my pdf file originated as a text > file (first-hand), then I could eventually dig out the text, > (which means that pdf display COULD be pure LiveCode) > but if the pdf file was built (for example) by conversion > from a jpg file, then I could NEVER recover the text. > (that seems pretty reasonable, does it not ?) > > Catch me off-forum, and I can send you an > example stack. > > Best Regards > > -Francis > > "Nothing should ever be done for the first time !" > > > ______________________________**_________________ > 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<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > > -- Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> _______________________________________________ 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
