convert pdf to png

[Carl K]

Andrew MacIntyre wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2007-12-24, Carl K <carl at personnelware.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> If it is a multi page pdf Imagemagick will do:
>>>>
>>>> convert file.pdf page-%03d.png
>>> I need python code to do this.  It is going to be run on a
>>> someone else's shared host web server, security and
>>> performance is an issue.  So I would rather not run stuff via
>>> popen.
>>
>> Use subprocess.
>>
>> Trying to eliminate popen because of the overhead when running
>> ghostscript to render PDF (I assume convert uses gs?) is about
>> like trimming an elephants toenails to save weight.
> 
> Using ctypes to call Ghostscript's API also works well.  I've only done
> this on Windows, but it should also work on other systems with ctypes
> support.
> 

sounds good, but I have 0.0 clue what that actually means.

Can you give me what you did with windows in hopes that I can figure out how to 
do it in Linux?   I am guessing it shouldn't be to different.  (well, hoping...)

Carl K