I thought about making something that is worth charging for, but I think the market is too small. Thus, I think that this should be free. It should just be some simple webservice that people can deploy to heroku on a free tier app. It shouldn't be that hard to develop and if we all work together on it, we can make something nice. =)
jon On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Andrius A <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am thinking to create a webservice for this as I have much of experience > converting various file formats. > How much would you be willing to pay per file conversion? per batch? > > Regards, > Andrius > > On 17 September 2012 21:52, Jon Stevens <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'll come up with something in October as I need this functionality. >> Basically, you just need a simple nodejs (or whatever) wrapper around >> imagemagick/ghostscript. I'll probably make it super simple to deploy a >> service to heroku. >> >> jon >> >> >> On Friday, August 31, 2012 2:49:57 PM UTC-7, Bommelmutze wrote: >>> >>> Does Google new provide any similar Library or API? >>> Actually it seems to be very hard to convert PDFs without the Conversion >>> API to Images. Do you have any alternative way to do that? >>> >>> Am Dienstag, 21. August 2012 20:16:48 UTC+2 schrieb Christina Ilvento: >>>> >>>> In November, 2012, we will be decommissioning the Experimental Conversion >>>> API <https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/conversion/>. >>>> In the 1.7.1 release, the API will be marked as “decommissioned” in our >>>> documentation, and starting the first release after November 1, the >>>> Conversion API will no longer be supported in the App Engine SDK or >>>> runtimes. >>>> >>>> One of the great things about App Engine is our ability to quickly >>>> release and iterate on new Experimental features. But sometimes a feature >>>> doesn’t get the developer adoption and momentum needed to justify providing >>>> it as a fully supported feature with a continued maintenance commitment. >>>> The Conversion API is one of those features. >>>> >>>> We are committed to providing a well-maintained, fully-supported >>>> platform and we will continue to focus on providing high value features for >>>> our developers. If you have any concerns or questions, please don’t >>>> hesitate to contact us at *google-app-engine-conversion- >>>> api-decommission-questions**@google.com*. >>>> >>>> Thank you for your continued support of App Engine. >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Christina Ilvento, Product Manager for the App Engine Conversion API >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google App Engine" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/rjfSKRiAYXMJ. >> >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
