[reportlab-users] PNG to PDF

[Dinu Gherman]

Tim Roberts:


> This is an interesting request.  There's no way to *convert* a PNG to

> PDF.  You can *embed* a bitmap into a PDF, and ReportLab can do that in

> a half-dozen lines of code, but it's not "converted" in any way.


Well, since you can get the PNG out of the PDF again, one might
call this a lossless conversion between different formats. But,
yes, I feel like PDF is used here as a container format, like
Quicktime, say, or tar.

BTW, the inverse operation (PDF to PNG) is more interesting.
See a code snippet of mine doing something very similar here
converting (?!) to TIFF on OS X:

   http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/223320

Dinu

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