A simple script to convert named PDFs to PNGs of the equivalent name.the use case here is that I had a program that churned out graphs as PDFs (and PDFs only) and needed to include these graphs in another document (webpages in this case). This script takes the PDFs and runs them on the commandline through a simple programs called "sips", naming …

pdf2png.py

import sys
from os import path, system

# for each file
for infile in sys.argv[1:]:
    # extract filename components
    base, ext = path.splitext (infile)
    new_name = base + ".png"
    print "Converting %s to %s ..." % (infile, new_name)
    system ("sips -s format png \"%s\" --out \"%s\"" % (infile, new_name))