Is there any route to importing a PDF image into LiveCode?

[Matthias Rebbe]

Graham,


you could use ImageMagick. http://www.imagemagick.org
It is a software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images. But you need only the command-line tool convert.

You could try the following command for a quick start for example:

     convert -density 300x300 -trim your_source.pdf output.jpeg

This would convert  the file  "your_source.pdf" to  the jpeg file  output.jpeg with a density of 300x300dpi

You can find more information about the commandline switches of convert at  
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php


HTH,

Matthias
Am 05.04.2011 um 00:00 schrieb Graham Samuel:

> Folks
> 
> I see in the archives some discussion of this topic, but it seemed to be concentrated on the issue of reading the text in a PDF. I have to process some images which exist as PDF files (with little or no text and anyway I don't want to deconstruct it at all). I would be happy to turn the PDF into an image which could be displayed, snapshotted etc., i.e. essentially a bitmap.
> 
> I don't think LiveCode can do this natively, but can anyone suggest a route perhaps using another tool which would make this work automatically (I mean I want the user to find the file using a normal dialog within a LiveCode program and the image would then be imported without further action on the user's part)? The target platform is PC.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Graham
> 
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