PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8

[Thierry Douez]

​Hello Graham,
​

2013/9/23 Graham Samuel <livfoss at mac.com>

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.
>

​Thanks for your endorsement.

Actually, I've never tried it​

​on Windows 8, but considering the code of the external,
this should not be a problem. ( don't have a win8 box here )
​


> 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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