Ghostscript on Google App Engine?

Question

Hello,

Is it possible to call ghostscript on an App Engine project? I'd like to be able to perform some document conversion using gs (pdf to tiff in particular), and I am not seeing any specific documentation that either rules out this possibility or states how to pull it off.

Thanks!

Shaheeb R.

Answer 1

From some cursory Googling it looks like ghostscript is written mostly in C, so no, you won't be able to run it on App Engine directly. If you have a server available you can run it there and send in documents for conversion, or you could bring up an EC2 instance remotely when you need to do a conversion.