Carl K wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2007-12-24, Carl K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>> If it is a multi page pdf Imagemagick will do: >>>> >>>> convert file.pdf page-%03d.png >>> I need python code to do this. It is going to be run on a >>> someone else's shared host web server, security and >>> performance is an issue. So I would rather not run stuff via >>> popen. >> >> Use subprocess. >> >> Trying to eliminate popen because of the overhead when running >> ghostscript to render PDF (I assume convert uses gs?) is about >> like trimming an elephants toenails to save weight. >> > > maybe, but I wouldn't be so sure. > > currently the pdf is created in a python StringIO buffer and returned to > the browser; so it never becomes a file. using convert means I have to > first save it as a file, convert from file to file, read the file, > delete the 2 files. so 6 file operations where before there were none. > That may be more of a load than the ghostscript part. > > Carl K
Are you clever and am I stupid? I did not read this in your original post! Jaap -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list