Jaap Spies wrote: > 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! >
Here is what the code looks like that generates the pdf: buffer = StringIO() rw = dReportWriter(OutputFile=buffer, ReportFormFile=xmlfile, Cursor=ds) rw.write() pdf = buffer.getvalue() return pdf Carl K -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list