Reading PDF documents

[Roger Eller]

On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Bernard Devlin wrote:

> I just downloaded one of the binaries from the IM download site (the
> zip file that is meant to require no installation/windows registry
> atlerations).  No compilation was involved.  No error messages were
> thrown up in the installation (i.e. unzipping process).  I found what
> I took to be the GUI interface to IM, and fired it up.  No errors.
>
>  The zip file was indeed 43mb, which expanded  out to 109mb.


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>  A LiveCode + IM exe/dll + Ghostscript exe/dll might still be smaller
> than...


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>
> Bernard


An earlier post mentioned that IM actually uses GS to do postscript and PDF
conversions.  That is why in my experience, just using the GS command-line
features were simpler and required nothing more than LiveCode shell, and GS
to convert a PDF to a multitude of LC compatible bitmap formats.  So, is IM
an unnecessary layer?  I think so if indeed IM needs GS to do this.

˜Roger