On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: > es, RevServer should allow creation and manipulation of objects (at least > the older Rev CGI allowed this), and using the "save" command you should > even be able to save those changes to disk.
At that point, everything could exist, then--the output is generated by copy or create card, copy group, move, and fill fields. > But no, unfortunately you won't be able to do anything that involves > rendering objects graphically. Server environments are "faceless", they > have no GUI components, and so there's no way for LiveCode to render > anything into an imaging buffer such as would be need to generate PDF with > its printToPDF external. hmm. I tossed together this simple stack. In preOpenStack, it first writes a text file, then prints the first card as pdf, then quits. I don't *see* a flicker of it hitting the mac screen, nor does it put up any kind of splash screen before exit. Both files get written. The files also get created if I ssh in from my iPad and "open quiet" I then pushed my luck, and built it for linux and copied it over. I telnetted in, and it crashed with an X error. Did a bit of googling, found and installed xvfb, and it produced my output. I've copied it to the same on-rev directory as my test script, but I'm not having much success. I've got start using stack "quiet.livecode" put "now using <p>" send "preOpenStack" to stack "quiet.livecode" and I get: file "/home/dochawkb/public_html/test3.lc" row 15, col 7: Chunk: can't find stack row 15, col 1: start: can't find object I get the same result if I use /home/dochawkb/public_html/quiet.livecode > Thus far the only command-line app I've seen which can generate PDFs is > ImageMagick: > <http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php> I've come to know it quite well :) I'm sure there's more to it than "convert", but . . . -- The Hawkins Law Firm Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 hawkinslawf...@gmail.com 3025 S. Maryland Parkway Suite A Las Vegas, NV 89109
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