PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8

[Graham Samuel]

Just to say that I can endorse Thierry's external, which I'm using in a commercial product. I have not in fact tried it on Windows 8, but it should be fine as it works in Windows 7 and XP - if Thierry says it will work with Windows 8, I'm sure it will. It does exactly what I needed it to do, which is to make a bitmap within a PDF (in my case a geographical map) available to LiveCode.

My product really doesn't need a Mac or a Linux version, but I must say it would be good if a robust cross-platform solution were available. I think it would be possible to code one entirely natively, but it would be a big job. One day... In fact there is a cross-platform program out there in the Open Source world, ImageMagick, but in my case I couldn't reconcile either the licensing terms or the way one was supposed to integrate it (or not) into one's product with what I needed, so Thierry came to my rescue.

HTH

Graham

On 23 Sep 2013, at 08:53, Thierry Douez wrote:

> 2013/9/18 Ray Horsley <ray at linkit.com>
> 
>> 
>> So there's apparently no solution to this seemingly common need to be able
>> to view and convert PDF files to single PNG's or JPEG's in Livecode.
>> 
>> Suggestions?
>> 
> 
> 
> ​Hi Ray,
> 
> 
> There is a free pdf reader for Win32 / Win64 there:
>     http://www.soraxsoft.com/index.html
> 
> and they have a ​
> Sorax PDF SDK DLL
> ​ too.
> 
> A couple of years ago, I've built an external which roughly
> creates an image object in LC out of a pdf page, using their DLL.
> 
> If you are interested​, just let me know.​
> 
> ​Regards,
> 
> Thierry​
> 
> 
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