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authorAlvin Penner <penner@vaxxine.com>2010-02-04 00:32:27 +0000
committerAlvin Penner <penner@vaxxine.com>2010-02-04 00:32:27 +0000
commite11c6e704ac14d0910c327ebed53d12c6524d37e (patch)
treebcadf4670f43441d625b1b3f97165347ba282156
parentallow switch between LINE and LWPOLYLINE (diff)
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patch by sas for read-only directory
Fixed bugs: - https://launchpad.net/bugs/512681 (bzr r9043)
-rw-r--r--share/extensions/run_command.py14
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/share/extensions/run_command.py b/share/extensions/run_command.py
index e1b51b3b0..f688444d6 100644
--- a/share/extensions/run_command.py
+++ b/share/extensions/run_command.py
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA
"""
-# Run a command that generates an SVG file from an input file.
-# On success, outputs the contents of the SVG file to stdout, and exits
+# Run a command that generates an SVG (or PDF) file from an input file.
+# On success, outputs the contents of the resulting file to stdout, and exits
# with a return code of 0.
# On failure, outputs an error message to stderr, and exits with a return
# code of 1.
@@ -32,6 +32,12 @@ def run(command_format, prog_name):
svgfile = tempfile.mktemp(".svg")
command = command_format % svgfile
msg = None
+ # ps2pdf may attempt to write to the current directory, which may not
+ # be writeable, so we switch to the temp directory first.
+ try:
+ os.chdir(tempfile.gettempdir())
+ except Exception:
+ pass
# In order to get a return code from the process, we use subprocess.Popen
# if it's available (Python 2.4 onwards) and otherwise use popen2.Popen3
# (Unix only). As the Inkscape package for Windows includes Python 2.5,
@@ -59,7 +65,7 @@ def run(command_format, prog_name):
except Exception, inst:
msg = "Error attempting to run %s: %s" % (prog_name, str(inst))
- # If successful, copy the SVG file to stdout.
+ # If successful, copy the output file to stdout.
if msg is None:
if os.name == 'nt': # make stdout work in binary on Windows
import msvcrt
@@ -70,7 +76,7 @@ def run(command_format, prog_name):
sys.stdout.write(data)
f.close()
except IOError, inst:
- msg = "Error reading temporary SVG file: %s" % str(inst)
+ msg = "Error reading temporary file: %s" % str(inst)
# Clean up.
try: