Oh cool! Just read up on cupsfilter and it looks like you're right. On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Matthias Rebbe < matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de> wrote:
> Bruce, > > if i remember right, but i could be wrong, then convert was just a symlink > for cupsfilter. > > > https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/cupsfilter.8.html > > > Regards, > > Matthias > > > Am 26.08.2012 um 23:08 schrieb Bruce Pokras <bruc...@comcast.net>: > > > Hello all! > > > > I develop an application called Patent Grabber that downloads patents > from various US and international patent authorities. Unlike many other > authorities that provide patent pages in PDF, the US Patent & Trademark > Office (USPTO) provides patent pages in TIFF. From Tiger through Lion, the > following script (which I believe came from a member of this group) has > worked to convert those TIFF images into PDF pages: > > > > put "/System/Library/Printers/Libraries/convert" into tConvertApp > > get shell(tConvertApp && "-f" && quote & tiffFile & quote && "-o" && > quote & pdfFile & quote && "-j application/pdf 2>&1") > > > > Now under Mountain Lion this script has stopped working. Users of my > application who have upgraded to Mountain Lion are left with a folder full > of TIFFs and an error message from my application that it could not find > any PDFs to combine into the final single PDF patent file. Does anyone have > an idea what could be happening? > > > > Since foreign patent authorities provide patent pages in PDF, I know > that the other shell script that Patent Grabber uses (which combines > multiple PDF pages into a single PDF file) works fine. I think that should > rule out this being a Mountain Lion security issue as a result of my > application being unsigned, right??? Everything is going on in the > Documents folder. > > > > Any insights would be greatly appreciated. My 2006 iMac cannot run > Mountain Lion, so I cannot simply do the upgrade to see what is going on. > > > > Regards, > > > > Bruce Pokras > > Blazing Dawn Software > > www.blazingdawn.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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
