Help needed: Shell script stopped working in Mountain Lion!

[Mike Bonner]

After poking around some on mountain lion it looks like convert is gone.
 If these are upgraded machines you might be able to locate it somewhere in
/Previous System/...

Not positive this is the issue but its worth a check, and I am sure that
convert is not in the location you specified on my system. (also did a find
/ -name convert to search the whole system and didn't locate it)

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Bruce Pokras <bruceap at comcast.net> wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> I develop an application called Patent Grabber that downloads patents from
> various US and international patent authorities. Unlike many other
> authorities that provide patent pages in PDF, the US Patent & Trademark
> Office (USPTO) provides patent pages in TIFF. From Tiger through Lion, the
> following script (which I believe came from a member of this group) has
> worked to convert those TIFF images into PDF pages:
>
> put "/System/Library/Printers/Libraries/convert" into tConvertApp
> get shell(tConvertApp && "-f" && quote & tiffFile & quote && "-o" && quote
> & pdfFile & quote && "-j application/pdf 2>&1")
>
> Now under Mountain Lion this script has stopped working. Users of my
> application who have upgraded to Mountain Lion are left with a folder full
> of TIFFs and an error message from my application that it could not find
> any PDFs to combine into the final single PDF patent file. Does anyone have
> an idea what could be happening?
>
> Since foreign patent authorities provide patent pages in PDF, I know that
> the other shell script that Patent Grabber uses (which combines multiple
> PDF pages into a single PDF file) works fine. I think that should rule out
> this being a Mountain Lion security issue as a result of my application
> being unsigned, right??? Everything is going on in the Documents folder.
>
> Any insights would be greatly appreciated. My 2006 iMac cannot run
> Mountain Lion, so I cannot simply do the upgrade to see what is going on.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bruce Pokras
> Blazing Dawn Software
> www.blazingdawn.com
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