Can LC Server code export images of cards and objects

Tom Glod tom at makeshyft.com
Mon Apr 29 17:21:36 EDT 2019


It will only be running on a linux server so I can convert the image into
what i want with command line tools at 100% quality ......(assuming so)

On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 5:18 PM Tom Glod <tom at makeshyft.com> wrote:

> Thanks for that tip I'll keep it in mind for now and in the future.
>
> In this case, there is no need for searchable text .... its a visual birth
> plan wizard for pregnant women with 1 page output.
>
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 2:54 PM Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> Tom Glod wrote:
>>
>>  > I can convert image to PDF using other means as long as I have the
>>  > image.
>>
>> Probably worth a few minutes to test LC's PDF generation from the LC
>> Server engine for Linux (or whatever your target hosting OS is).
>>
>> Snapshots are bitmaps, without vector information.  PDFs can be done
>> that way, but lose quality in printing, can't be searched, etc.
>>
>> Using the LC's Print-to-PDF external translates LC's object vectors to
>> PDF vectors, making as much as possible resolution-independent.  This
>> not only improves printing quality, but also zooming, and usually
>> results in a much smaller file for shorter download times.
>>
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