Andrew MacIntyre 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. > > Using ctypes to call Ghostscript's API also works well. I've only done > this on Windows, but it should also work on other systems with ctypes > support. >
sounds good, but I have 0.0 clue what that actually means. Can you give me what you did with windows in hopes that I can figure out how to do it in Linux? I am guessing it shouldn't be to different. (well, hoping...) Carl K -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list