using os.system and ps2pdf

[Jeffery D. Collins]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 12:19:49AM +0000, iddwb wrote:
> Problem.  I need to read stdin, and convert it to pdf.  Luckily, stdin
> will give me postscript.  So, I thought I simple script would work.  
> Invoking the ps2pdf program manually works fine to create the
> pdf.  Unfortunately, the following code doesn't allow ps2pdf to do its
> work fully,  It creates an empty pdf.  Is there a better way to call an
> external program than os.system?  Alternatively, could reading stdin be
> dropping something?
> 
> any advice would be appreciated.
> 
> 
> #!/usr/local/bin/python
> 
> import os, sys, tempfile
> 
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>     psf = tempfile.mktemp("psf")
>     pdf = tempfile.mktemp("pdf")
>     ps = open(psf, "w")
>     ps.write(sys.stdin.read())
>     ps.close

      ps.close()

>     print "ps2pdf %s %s" % (psf, pdf)
>     os.system("ps2pdf %s %s" % (psf, pdf))
> 
> David Bear
> College of Public Programs/ASU

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Jeffery Collins (http://www.boulder.net/~jcollins)