Re: Calling a pdf display through LiveCode, on a PC.

2012-10-09 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from you-know-where, Bob Sneidar wrote : I believe LC has a command called launch ….. Bob, I have just fallen foul of the old saying : Can't see the wood for the trees, or even : Why use a simple solution when a complicated one will also do the job !. I got so used to building

Re: Calling a pdf display through LiveCode, on a PC.

2012-10-09 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hey, if the retro thrusters fired on re-entry, then everyone's happy! :-) Bob On Oct 9, 2012, at 8:57 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: I got so used to building Applescript calls to Skim (Especially to pass Scale, Page No., etc.), that I never even considered a simple route ….:(

Re: Calling a pdf display through LiveCode, on a PC.

2012-10-09 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Possibly there is an open-source 'something' for PDF around and about that can be leveraged with Livecode: ghostscript and ps2pdf are a possibility. Unfortunately, on mac, you seem to need to install macports first,

Re: Calling a pdf display through LiveCode, on a PC.

2012-10-08 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from you know where, Thanks to all for the input. Unfortunately, I still don't have a solution. My PDF is a Family Tree exported from EazyDraw, but I can also export to jpg, png, etc. Maybe I will have to solve the problem this way. -Francis ___

Re: Calling a pdf display through LiveCode, on a PC.

2012-10-08 Thread Bob Sneidar
Just curious, on a Mac running OS X can't you simply tell the Finder to open the file and have whatever app is the default app open it? Or do you need the annotation features that Skim gives you which something like Preview does not? I believe LC has a command called launch, that will open a

Re: Calling a pdf display through LiveCode, on a PC.

2012-10-08 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Have you tried evince? I don't know about the command line options for calling it in Windows. Excellent reader. Peter Francis Nugent Dixon wrote Hi from you know where, Thanks to all for the input. Unfortunately, I still don't have a solution. My PDF is a Family Tree exported from

Re: Calling a pdf display through LiveCode, on a PC.

2012-10-07 Thread Richmond
On 10/06/2012 11:04 PM, Klaus on-rev wrote: Hi Francis, Am 06.10.2012 um 22:00 schrieb Francis Nugent Dixon effe...@wanadoo.fr: Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I have a stack which displays a pdf file, by calling Skim through AppleScript. Skim has all the required AppleScript interfaces - a

Re: Calling a pdf display through LiveCode, on a PC.

2012-10-07 Thread Richmond
sorry, I overlooked that you are looking for a scriptable application. Don't think that Foxit can be scripted. open process ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: Calling a pdf display through LiveCode, on a PC.

2012-10-07 Thread Richmond
On 10/07/2012 09:47 AM, Richmond wrote: sorry, I overlooked that you are looking for a scriptable application. Don't think that Foxit can be scripted. open process http://www.foxitsoftware.com/products/sdk/activex/ scriptable, integratable stuff . . .

Re: Calling a pdf display through LiveCode, on a PC.

2012-10-07 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Richmond, Am 07.10.2012 um 08:50 schrieb Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com: On 10/07/2012 09:47 AM, Richmond wrote: sorry, I overlooked that you are looking for a scriptable application. Don't think that Foxit can be scripted. open process

Re: Calling a pdf display through LiveCode, on a PC.

2012-10-07 Thread Richmond
On 10/07/2012 12:38 PM, Klaus on-rev wrote: Hi Richmond, Am 07.10.2012 um 08:50 schrieb Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com: On 10/07/2012 09:47 AM, Richmond wrote: sorry, I overlooked that you are looking for a scriptable application. Don't think that Foxit can be scripted. open process

Re: Calling a pdf display through LiveCode, on a PC.

2012-10-06 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Francis, Am 06.10.2012 um 22:00 schrieb Francis Nugent Dixon effe...@wanadoo.fr: Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I have a stack which displays a pdf file, by calling Skim through AppleScript. Skim has all the required AppleScript interfaces - a really great app. !! Unfortunately, it is

Re: Calling a pdf display through LiveCode, on a PC.

2012-10-06 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Francis, Am 06.10.2012 um 22:04 schrieb Klaus on-rev kl...@major.on-rev.com: Hi Francis, Am 06.10.2012 um 22:00 schrieb Francis Nugent Dixon effe...@wanadoo.fr: Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I have a stack which displays a pdf file, by calling Skim through AppleScript. Skim has all