Re: ps2pdf???
- From: David C. Ullrich <ullrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 11:32:38 -0500
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 14:48:43 +0000 (UTC), Ulrike Fischer
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David C. Ullrich <ullrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb:
Sorry. What detail could I provide? The error message doesn't
say anything more than "bad filename"...
Thanks for the input. I don't think that the problem
is the sort of thing you ask about below. I've of
course nonetheless answered the questions you asked,
but at the bottom of this post.
One reason I don't think that that's the problem is that
I have a similar solution that would be vulnerable to
similar problems _almost_ working. I give up on ps2pdf.bat,
look inside to see what it's doing, and try to do something
similar but simpler. If I open a DOS window, go to the
directory containing Ch2.ps, and type
gsview32 -fpdfwrite Ch2.ps
it converts the ps to pdf with no difficulty. The only
problem with that is that gsview still pops up a window
asking for the output filename.
Saying
gsview32 .setpdfwrite -f Ch2.ps
does the same thing, asks for the output name and then
does the conversion and exits. I know there _must_ be
a way to pass the output filename on the command line,
but I haven't been able to figure out what it is.
(Looking at the examples and at ps2pdfxx.bat it's
clear that gsview supports a lot more command-line
parameters than are described in the docs. The
obvious
gsview32 -fpdfwrite Ch2.ps Ch2.pdf
complains that Ch2.pdf doesn't exist - evidently it
thinks I want to convert both files to pdf. The
only place the bat files use the second parameter
is adding -sOutputFile#%2 to the command line;
I've put
-sOutputFile#Ch2.pdf
in various places, to no avail.
You don't have any idea how you pass an output filename
to gsview, I suppose?
)
Anyway:
Where is ps2pdf?
In c:\gs\gs7.03\lib
Are you sure you know that there isn't another version
somewhere that gets in the way?
Yes.
(mikTeX seems nowadays to have an own
ps2pdf
No ps2pdf in my mikTeX.
and remains of older gs-installations can mess up everything).
Does it work if you put the path to ps2pdf in the call?
No.
Is ps2pdf an .exe or a .bat?
..bat
If the second: what is the content? If it
calls other batch-files/.exe where are they?
In the same directory. On the path.
Are you sure that they
aren't other versions around?
For a second I thought maybe that was it, thanks.
There's a ps2pdf.bat and also something that appears
to be a UNIX shell script named just ps2pdf in the
same directory. I didn't think Windows was trying
to execute the shell script, and I didn't see how
that would lead to "bad filename", but it couldn't hurt
to make sure... no, spelling it out "ps2pdf.bat"
doesn't change anything.
And yes, that directory _is_ on the path. To
check, I made a hello.bat just now in the directory
that contains the only ps2pdf.bat on the machine,
with one line "echo hello". I type "hello" from
any directory at all and sure enough it echoes
"hello"...
How are you using ps2pdf on the command line?
Opening a DOS window, cd-ing to the directory
containing the ps file, typing
ps2pdf.bat Ch2.ps Ch2.pdf
and hitting Enter.
What is the path of file
you are trying to convert?
The DOS window's currect directory; "dir Ch2.ps"
displays
Ch2 PS
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David C. Ullrich
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