On 2.04.2016 18:38, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Richmond wrote:
I see that Supercard, in their 4.8 Beta have introduced these:
rtfToText - extracts text from an RTF or RTFD file
pdfToText - extracts text from a PDF file
docToText - extracts text from a Microsoft Word file
docxToText - extracts text from a Microsoft Word XML file
htmlToText - extracts text from an HTML file
webarchiveToText - extracts text from a WebArchive file
http://forums.supercard.us/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2115&p=10705&hilit=pdf#p10705
However, as I have just joined the Supercard Forum [for the only reason
to get a copy of the Beta] this will take a few days to come through.
Richard Gaskin should not have to wait:
http://solutionsetcetera.com/betarequest.html
Of course, as Supercard is Macintosh only I suspect
these features are leveraging Mac-only features; although they
do look very UNIX/Linux like in their naming method.
Thanks. Yes, Mark Lucas has been doing some outstanding work on
SuperCard 4.8.
Well, outstanding is as outstanding does, I really wonder how Supercard
keeps going in the
face of competition of Livecode.
I know that Supercard has been around for donkey's ages (recall playing
with it [and finding it
rather awkward compared with Hypercard 2.4.1] about 20 years ago), but
as Macintosh, whichever way one
looks at things, is a coterie, niche market, a multiplatform alternative
(pace Livecode) would seem
to make it redundant.
But being exclusively for OS X, as much as I've enjoyed trying out
those enhancements on my Mac I can't use them on the platform I spend
most of my time on (Ubuntu), or the one most of my users spend time on
(Windows). Mr. Lucas is, to put it politely, not fond of the Windows
API, and has no interest in Linux, so I don't see that changing
anytime soon.
I may have a lead on a long-term multi-plat solution, and for now I
can get through the first batch of a thousand or so PDFs I need to
work with using the pdftotext command line tool included in Ubuntu.
Yes, batch processing of PDF to text is easy enough (although the
standard of end results may vary) on Linux; but it is not
an in-built solution in Livecode.
In a perfect world (which is a silly turn of phrase) Livecode would be
able to parse just about any file one could chuck
at it.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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Richmond.
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