Convert PDF's to Images

[Ralph DiMola]

I think this was a v8 widget target. I don't remember if this is planned for
a v7 version. Richard, Do you have any insight?

Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdimola at evergreeninfo.net


-----Original Message-----
From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf
Of Ray
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 11:29 AM
To: use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
Subject: Re: Convert PDF's to Images

Ralph,

This is very exciting news for me regarding this front.  How can I learn
more and stay on top of this?

Thanks,

Ray

On 12/8/2014 1:06 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote:
> Ray,
>
> I talked to Mark about PDFs and LC @rr14. The Foxit PDF library has 
> been chosen by Google and is open source. RR plans to make the API 
> available cross-platform(including mobile). I don't know the
implementation schedule.
>
>  From Foxit Web Page:
> FoxitR Corporation, a leading provider of solutions for reading, 
> editing, creating, organizing, and securing PDF documents, today 
> announced that Foxit PDF technology has been chosen as the open-source 
> PDF rendering engine in the Google's open-source PDFium Project.
>
> Ralph DiMola
> IT Director
> Evergreen Information Services
> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On 
> Behalf Of Ray
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 10:39 AM
> To: use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Convert PDF's to Images
>
> Greetings List,
>
> About a year ago I solicited suggestions for a command line tool, Mac 
> and Windows, I could license which would return the number of pages in 
> a PDF as well as convert it to images at various resolutions.
>
> Unfortunately I still haven't found an ideal solution so I thought I'd 
> ask if anybody has experience or suggestions with the inner-workings 
> of PDF files so I could consider writing my own converter, maybe as a 
> plugin, for a Livecode standalone.  OF course it would be great to write
it in Livecode.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks!
>
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