On 07/09/2012 05:53 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Richmond wrote:
Continuing my search for PDF via EPS import........................
Went here: http://www.canelasoftware.com/mc/metacard24/
Like any IDE for LiveCode, the MetaCard IDE is just a collection of
stacks; the engine that runs those stacks is the same engine that runs
the LiveCode IDE.
Why would you expect those stacks to be able to import PDF?
PDF and EPS are very different things, and there's nothing the MC IDE
stacks can do with EPS that your own stacks can't do in the LiveCode
IDE (which is next to NIL, since I don't believe EPS is listed
anywhere as a supported format).
If you take the time to read my "Lonesome Yodel" post (which I shall
summarise here as it is a bit
tedious), you will realise that I want to import an EPS file into a stack.
This is because I can convert PDF forms quickly and easily into EPS
format (ether directly, or via postscript).
Metacard (lest you forget) has an option to import EPS files.
This capability, while appearing in the import stack of Metacard, seems
to have stopped functioning
in later recensions; hence my attempt to get Metacard 2.4 running on
Linux (which I have done in the
past, but, foolishly deleted before I realised the EPS capability had
gone west).
Of course I could have a go with Alejandro's stack.
That said, I believe Alejandro wrote an EPS importer script, which
parses the EPS and converts those coordinates to native LC objects -
Alejandro, what's the URL for that?
--
Richard Gaskin
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