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Monte Goulding
monte at sweattechnologies.com
Tue Mar 8 00:04:11 EST 2005
>
> Actually, if you only care about OS X, this will create a PDF for you:
>
> function stsMakePDF pSrcPath,pDestPath
> switch (the platform)
> case "MacOS"
> if isOSX() then
> set the cursor to watch
> put "/System/Library/Printers/Libraries/convert" into tConvertApp
> get shell(tConvertApp && "-f" && q(pSrcPath) && "-o" && q(pDestPath)
> && "-j application/pdf")
> if it = "" then
> return "OK"
> else
> return "Error : " & it
> end if
> else
> return "Error : stsMakePDF only works on Mac OS X."
> end if
> break
> default
> return "Error : stsMakePDF only works on Mac OS X."
> break
> end switch
> end stsMakePDF
>
> function isOSX
> set the itemDel to "."
> return (item 1 of the systemVersion >=10)
> end isOSX
>
> function q what
> return quote & what & quote
> end q
As usual Ken always coming up with the goods!
I'm coming in late on the thread. What's the source file here? HTML? If so I
think Chipp uses a command line HTML to PDF converter on windows which could
fit into this function nicely ;-)
Cheers
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Monte Goulding
Sweat Technologies
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