Re: Reading PDFs in LC (again)

2011-10-08 Thread Graham Samuel
So that I can hoover up my other requirement to read TIFFs. Sadly LC doesn't help with that either. Graham Sent from my iPad OnDate: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 21:57:26 - 0500, Chipp Walters ch...@chipp.com wrote: Graham, I'm puzzled why you're using ImageMagick when even with ImageMagick you

Reading PDFs in LC (again)

2011-10-07 Thread Graham Samuel
Folks, I have been reading all the responses I got on this issue that appeared under a number of different subject headings in the last couple of weeks. I thought people might be interested in my current position. First, my intention was to read PDFs as images (bitmaps) into an LC-authored app

Re: Reading PDFs in LC (again)

2011-10-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
Graham Samuel wrote: I was scared of ImageMagick both because of the Windows-specific technical warnings on the download site and because of the license terms. The good news is that people on this list have persuaded me that I should not be scared. There is still some question over the

Re: Reading PDFs in LC (again)

2011-10-07 Thread Chipp Walters
Graham, I'm puzzled why you're using ImageMagick when even with ImageMagick you still need to install GhostScript. Why not only install GhostScript and run it from the command line (or process)? It can directly convert PDF's to PNG, BMP, JPG, etc.. which can then be imported into LC. On Fri, Oct