shell() and pdftotext

[Phil Davis]

To find the full path, this may work - open Terminal and type:

     which pdftotext

and it should display the path to the copy of pdftotext that the OS runs 
when you type the 'pdftotext' command.

Phil Davis


On 1/12/20 2:00 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote:
> My guess is that shell can’t find your executable.  Try using full paths.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
> On Jan 12, 2020, 2:54 PM -0500, Hillen Richard via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I want to extract .txt from a pdf-file using Livecode 9.5 on macOS Catalina.
>>
>> Therefore I installed from http://www.xpdfreader.com/
>> the xpdf-tools-mac-4.02
>> and using the Terminal with „pdftotext /Users/hillen/Desktop/inter.pdf“
>> I get a clean text-file inter.txt. Wonderful!
>>
>> So I hopefully wrote in Livecode:
>>
>> ——————
>> put "/users/hillen/Desktop/inter.pdf" into fn
>> put "pdftotext " & fn into Kommando
>>
>> if there is not a file fn then
>> answer „no SourceFile!"
>> exit to top
>> end if
>>
>> get shell(quote & Kommando & quote)
>>
>> answer it & return & the result
>> ——————
>>
>> But extracting doesn´t work and I get the answer:
>>
>> /bin/sh: line 1: pdftotext /users ……pdf: No such file or directory
>>
>> and the result ist 127.
>>
>>
>>
>> Typing to Terminal „pdftotext“ I get a List with command-options.
>>
>> With
>> get shell(„pdftotext“) with and without quotes
>>
>> I get the answer „/bin/sh: line 1: pdftotext: command not found“
>>
>>
>>
>> What is wrong? May you please help?
>>
>> Richard.
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