Scripting PDF files

[Thomas J McGrath III]

Ken,

I was curious about this and copied this text with correct line break 
into a button in a new stack and and threw up a blank text field and 
hit the button and nothing happened. What else am I missing to test 
this?

Thanks
Tom

On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, at 01:40 AM, Ken Ray wrote:

> Here's a way from our friends over at the SuperCard list (modified for
> Rev use, of course)... seems to work for text files and images (watch
> the line breaks):
>
> on mouseUp
>   answer file "Select a file:"
>   if it <> "" then
>     put it into tSrcPath
>     put tPath & ".pdf" into tDestPath
>     put "/System/Library/Printers/Libraries/convert" into tConvertApp
>     get shell(tConvertApp && "-f" && tSrcPath && "-o" && tDestPath &&
> "-j application/pdf 2>&1")
>   end if
> end mouseUp
>
> If you check the results from the shell() it may have error messages in
> it, but it seems to still create the PDF.
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
>> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of
>> J. Landman Gay
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 10:45 PM
>> To: Revolution Mailing List
>> Subject: Scripting PDF files
>>
>>
>> OS X has a "Save as PDF" option in the print dialog. Does
>> anyone know of
>> a way to automate this, so a script could save a printout as
>> a PDF? Or
>> is there any other way to create a PDF?
>>
>> -- 
>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>>
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Thomas J McGrath III
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