[NEWBIE] How to call an external program

[Philipp Neuhaus]

Hi,
I want to convert an image file, so I have to call an external
program.
How can I do this?

(i want to call "sfftobmp -tifs input tempfile" and "tiff2ps tempfile*
| ps2pdf [output]")

Philipp

 

[Ulrich Petri]

Hi,
I want to convert an image file, so I have to call an external
program.
How can I do this?

(i want to call "sfftobmp -tifs input tempfile" and "tiff2ps tempfile*
| ps2pdf [output]")

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import os

def convertImage(infile, outfile):
os.system('sfftobmp -tifs %s tempfile' % infile)
os.system('tiff2ps tempfile* | ps2pdf %s' % outfile)

convertImage('/home/user/in.tif', '/home/user/out.pdf')
-----code---cut here----

HTH

Ciao Ulrich