Ah, OK thanks for the clarification. I hadn’t realize PDFium has been
around as long as it has been.
I wouldn’t sweat the naming conflict, there’s at least three “PDFKit”
libraries so you’re not alone.
On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 11:01 AM Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <
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On 12/14/2021 10:33 AM, Paul McClernan via use-livecode wrote:
I was fairly certain that XPDF external was/is based on this XPDF:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xpdf
Which has both GPL and Proprietary Licensing options available.
Nope. My company (Researchware) and I paid for the development
I was fairly certain that XPDF external was/is based on this XPDF:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xpdf
Which has both GPL and Proprietary Licensing options available.
The newer (> 9.6.3) PDF Widget is based on PDFium which is an offshoot
project that spawned from Google’s Chromium project. I’m
o the NumberOfPages of control "PDF1")
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Richmond wrote:
> On 12.12.21 21:33, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> Stam Kapetanakis wrote:
>> > i presume the pdf widget in pro is the opensource xpdfReader but
>> > don’t know for sure.
>>
>> If it is that would be problematic, as the open source edition of
>> xpdfReader is licensed under GPL, and
Both the page and character index are clamped to the number of pages and
characters on a page so you could set both to very high numbers. Adding
character counts to the documentPages property might be useful here too.
Cheers
Monte
> On 13 Dec 2021, at 11:17 am, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
>
Thank you Monte,
We've just started to make a map from XPDF APIs to the PDF Widget APIs,
so I'll make sure that gets done soon and add any missing capabilities
as requests to the LC Quality Center.
With regard to the hilitedRange and hilitedRangeText properties, can you
just advise on the
Hi Folks
Currently you can extract text in the widget by setting the hilitedRange and
getting the hilitedRangeText. It wouldn’t be that hard to add extracted text to
the documentPages property. The PDF widget was built to meet the requirements
for a client rather than to match the features of
On 12/12/2021 8:59 AM, Stam Kapetanakis via use-livecode wrote:
Hi Torsten,
i presume the pdf widget in pro is the opensource xpdfReader but don’t know for
sure.
It is not xpdfreader. The XPDF Erternal AND the PDF Wdiget with Licecode
are based on the Google PDFium Library. The first is C++
The consequences are endless.
On 12.12.21 21:33, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
Stam Kapetanakis wrote:
> i presume the pdf widget in pro is the opensource xpdfReader but
> don’t know for sure.
If it is that would be problematic, as the open source edition of
xpdfReader is licensed
Stam Kapetanakis wrote:
> i presume the pdf widget in pro is the opensource xpdfReader but
> don’t know for sure.
If it is that would be problematic, as the open source edition of
xpdfReader is licensed under GPL, and LC no longer has an edition
compatible with GPL.
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Richard Gaskin
Hi Torsten,
i presume the pdf widget in pro is the opensource xpdfReader but don’t know for
sure.
I did post on how to extract text from PDF using the free xpdfReader and
non-pro LC:
https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=8=35280=201036=Xpdfreader#p201036
I presume that with Pro this
I suspect it is for backward compatibility.
When I turned over the XPDF external to Livecode, I asked that they
maintain it for a couple years. I had expected we'd migrate out apps to
the PDF widget by then, but business factors mean we're only now just
starting a migration.
That's why I
Ah, i thought you were referring only to XPDF.
Btw. do you have an idea why both, XPDF external and PDF widget, are
maintained? Wouldn't it make sense to have only one pdf solution included?
Or am i missing something?
Regards,
Matthias
> Am 11.12.2021 um 02:01 schrieb Paul Dupuis via
Yes, I am familiar with the XPDF external (based on Google's PDFium
library), having designed it and paid Monte to code it and then turned
it over to LiveCode.
I was referring to the PDF Widget (also based on Google's PDFium), which
should have a comparable property for fetching the text of a
Paul,
here on mac OS the dictionary of LC 10 DP1 definitely lists the function
XPDFViewer_Text(viewerName, pageNumber).
Btw. checking this showed me that this function seems to be deprecated and
instead the command
XPDFViewer_Unicode viewerName, pageNumber, variableName
should be
There must be an undocumented property for the text of a page - there
was a function to return the full text of a page in the External (XPDF)
and to get the full text of the PDF file, you just stepped through the
pages (1..N) getting and concatenating the page text.
Monte? LC 10.0.0
Hi Torsten,
i think the PDF widget does not support extracting text by code. At least the
documentation does not show any information about this.
You wrote, that you have a business license. That would mean, that you can use
the Pro features of Livecode.
There is an external included in the
Hi,
I have a PDF file with text and pictures, but I just want the text.
I can do it manually with Ctrl-A and Ctrl-Copy by viewing the file with Preview
on MacOS.
I have a business licence and want to use the PDF widget but I cannot find a
way to do it.
Can someone help me out?
Cheers,
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