Sorry Bruce, I made a mistake. I mean sips https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/sips.1.html
-- Kind regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Http://economy-x-talk.com Share the clipboard of your computer over a local network with Clipboard Link http://clipboardlink.economy-x-talk.com Op 1 sep. 2012 om 15:39 heeft Bruce Pokras <bruc...@comcast.net> het volgende geschreven: > Sorry, Mark, I don't know the answer to that. I don't have Mountain Lion and, > in fact, cannot run ML on my "ancient" iMac from 2006. How would that work? > > > On Aug 30, 2012, at 10:18 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > >> Hi Bruce, >> >> Can't you use pids anymore under mountain lion? >> >> -- >> Kind regards, >> >> Mark Schonewille >> Economy-x-Talk >> Http://economy-x-talk.com >> >> Share the clipboard of your computer over a local network with Clipboard >> Link http://clipboardlink.economy-x-talk.com >> >> >> Op 31 aug. 2012 om 02:47 heeft Bruce Pokras <bruc...@comcast.net> het >> volgende geschreven: >> >>> Last week I posted about a problem converting TIFF images to PDF under Mac >>> OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion). The old shell script that Ken Ray had posted >>> several years ago and which had worked from Tiger through Lion simply did >>> not work under Mountain Lion. That script used a shell command called >>> "Convert" found at /System/Library/Printers/Libraries/convert. Several list >>> members helpfully commented that Convert was no longer included with >>> Mountain Lion, but it really was just an alias for another command called >>> CUPSfilter. I located and selected Convert and chose "Show original" and it >>> took me to /usr/sbin/cupsfilter. >>> >>> Now the first thing that I tried was to send the same command that I had >>> been using with Convert directly to Cupsfilter. That's because I felt that >>> since Convert was merely an alias, it was simply passing the command to >>> Cupsfilter and Cupsfilter was running it. Wrong! I don't know why, but all >>> I got were errors messages in the It variable (or was it The Result). >>> Whatever it was, Cupsfilter did not like the command that had worked for >>> Convert. >>> >>> So I went into the Terminal to try some stuff. First, I tried "cupsfilter" >>> and received an example command and a list of options. One of the options >>> was -m for the output file MIME type. However, there was no option for an >>> input file MIME type. A Google search has led me to believe that Cupsfilter >>> could identify the input file MIME type from its file extension. So I tried: >>> >>> cupsfilter [input file.tif] -m application/pdf [output file.pdf] >>> >>> What I received was an error message that the command could have only _one_ >>> file name! That is very different from using Convert where both the input >>> file and output file are named. So, OK, I'll use just the input file name >>> and see what happens: >>> >>> cupsfilter [input file.tif] -m application/pdf >>> >>> I received different error message that said that cupsfilter could not >>> determine the MIME type of the input file. So obviously the .tif extension >>> was not being recognized. What to do? Back to Google! >>> >>> After some fruitless searching I came to a page that had more Cupsfilter >>> options than I had seen previously. This one had an _input_ file MIME type >>> option, -i (duh!). I also found that PDF was the default output of >>> Cupsfilter, so there was no need for the output file MIME type. >>> >>> So back to the Terminal: >>> >>> cupsfilter -i image/tiff [input file.tif] >>> >>> Eureka!! The Terminal window was filled with commands and then a lot of >>> gobblygook that started with %PDF and ended with %EOF and a message "INFO: >>> cgimagetopdf (PID 35219) exited with no errors." In other words, it >>> returned a PDF to the Terminal window! >>> >>> So upon returning to Livecode, I found that the data was being returned in >>> the variable "it" and it was simple to excise just the PDF data from the >>> rest and write it to disk as a binfile. I double-clicked the file and up >>> popped the PDF image. Whew! >>> >>> So in Livecode all you have to do is use: >>> >>> put "/usr/sbin/cupsfilter" into tConvertApp >>> get shell(tConvertApp && "-i image/tiff " & quote & tiffFile & quote) >>> >>> and "it" should contain the data from which you can excise and save your >>> PDF file. >>> >>> 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 _______________________________________________ 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
