Help needed: Shell script stopped working in Mountain Lion!

[Mike Bonner]

Oh cool! Just read up on cupsfilter and it looks like you're right.

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Matthias Rebbe <
matthias_livecode_150811 at m-r-d.de> wrote:

> Bruce,
>
> if i remember right, but i could be wrong, then convert was just a symlink
> for cupsfilter.
>
>
> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/cupsfilter.8.html
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Matthias
>
>
> Am 26.08.2012 um 23:08 schrieb Bruce Pokras <bruceap at comcast.net>:
>
> > 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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