Douglas Bagnall wrote:
> Carl Karsten wrote:
>
>> I am trying to convert a pdf (data in string, not disk file) to a png. This
>> will be run in a django view on a server (PyCon's even) so it would be good
>> if
>> it didn't hit the disk as much. Shouldn't I be able to use .tostring if I
>> can
>> use .save?
>
> use cStringIO.
I saw some mention of that in the IM docs. any idea why .tostring doesn't work?
>
> It might not make much difference, because your OS should be caching the
> file in memory anyway, and letting you read it back before it is
> actually written to disk.
busy server, so if I can easily make it better...
Also, keeping everything in memory means nothing to clean up when things crash.
which happens often enough, that if I can make it better...
>
> If you are sure it is a disk problem, you could set it up to write to a
> ram file system (e.g. tmpfs on linux), which would help the PDF
> conversion too.
well, not sure. just a feeling and some comments from an admin.
make it better... :)
>
> Otherwise you could see if it possible to communicate with the convert
> script using pipes, rather than system(). That will cut out a few reads
> and writes.
I hear pipes aren't thread safe, and/or can deadlock the web server. no time
to
figure that out, so i am just avoiding it.
also, I just discovered
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/python/python-pythonmagick
but I can't find docs. any suggestions?
(not sure if I will be able to install this package on the server it needs to
be
on, so I am going to try to spend less than 30 min on it ... might happen ;)
Carl K
>
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> Douglas
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