os.system help

[Grzegorz Dostatni]

Cheers.

In short ghostscript is not installed by default on windows. You can
install it yourself (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/get814.htm)
and install. You could also try to package it in your program somehow (for
example including the binary in your program directory). I'm not sure if
it will work properly though.

I don't think there is anything installed by default on windows that can
read .ps files.

You could also try another approach. I am not entirely sure, but I think
that Python Imaging Library supports writing/reading .ps files.

Greg



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On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Reid Nichol wrote:

> Hello,
>    I have made a program that works wonderfully on OpenBSD but it uses
> os.system to get ghostscript to convert ps to jpeg.  But, I wish this
> program to run on Windows as well.  Is there any way I can snag where
> the gs executable is on Windows?  What it is named?  And so forth.
>
>