[Pythonmac-SIG] help! coregraphics+python+webserver suddenly fails

[michael geary]

Hi Folks,

i have very little experience with anything relating to cocoa, and not  
much more with quartz, but i'm an experienced web app developer, and  
have used python quite a bit. This list is the closest thing i can  
find to a forum where i can discuss this issue.

I have a script that i've been using for a long time to create jpeg  
previews of PDF documents, and it recently started failing. Here is  
the essence of the script:

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pdfData =  
CGPDFDocumentCreateWithProvider(CGDataProviderCreateWithFilename  
(pdfPath))

originalRect = pdfData.getMediaBox(page)

res = float(res)

origWidth, origHeight =  
(originalRect.size.width,originalRect.size.height)
width, height = (originalRect.size.width,originalRect.size.height)

newRect = CGRectMake(0,0,width*res/72.0,height*res/72.0)

## set the color space (rgb):
cs = CGColorSpaceCreateWithName(kCGColorSpaceUserRGB)

## set the context (whatever that is). Background color is hardcoded  
to white for now:
ctx = CGBitmapContextCreateWithColor(int(newRect.size.width),  
int(newRect.size.height),cs, (1, 1, 1, 1))

## draw the image
ctx.drawPDFDocument(newRect, pdfData, page)	

## write out the jpeg
ctx.writeToFile(jpegPath, kCGImageFormatJPEG)

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The problem i'm now suddenly getting (i'm on 10.5.6) is on the  
drawPDFDocument() call. When i hit that, the following gets logged to  
the system log:

/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/ 
Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python[402]: ATSClient: can't make  
connection to ATSServer. bootstrap_look_up status = 268435459

/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/ 
Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python[402]: ATSClient: can't re-connect  
with ATSServer   status = -3182

Python[402]: ATSFontActivateFromMemory failed: error -3182.

Help! Can anyone offer any insights?

thanks,

michael geary