What about the code Money has from Adobe? Can that be put in a external? It would be nice to start adding externals and something like that as open source might be the thing to show people how to write externals.
I know a little Xcode, C and objective-C and am willing to learn by helping but a person who can do it probably does not need help. JB ' > On May 4, 2016, at 9:13 AM, RM <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I would suppose the ideal thing would be both something that allows one to > render a PDF document, > and extract all or part of an embedded text layer (if one exists in the > original PDF). > > Richmond. > > On 4.05.2016 17:22, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> Tim Bleiler wrote: >> >> > The Livecode PDF viewer is an example of something that might do >> > well as a separate option. >> >> It might. >> >> It would be helpful if more folks read the specs for the PDF external >> LiveCode is including with their Business Edition. It's very specialized, >> with extensive features for getting and setting selections far beyond the >> needs of most projects. >> >> What I'm hearing from most Indy and Community devs is that they merely want >> to render a PDF within LiveCode. >> >> Given the PDFium library available for that, and that LiveCode Builder >> supports binary APIs such as those in that library, if this is a lucrative >> opportunity it would seem worth pursuing for those who want it. >> >> The developer could sell it as proprietary, or even dual-license it with a >> GPL version. >> >> Anyone sufficiently convinced of the business opportunity here to take this >> on? >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
