From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-11-17T07:39:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Another IO.popen question ...

On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> would this work?
>
> file = "mypdf.pdf"
> IO.popen("cat #{file} | ...")
>
> or simply
>
> IO.popen("convert -resize 700x700 #{file} png:-")

yeah - that's it alright

  png = IO.popen("convert -resize 700x700 #{file} png:-"){|pipe| pipe.read}

dump it to stdout...

-a
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