ghostscript

[Chris Jankowski]

Hi all,
I am still fairly new to the Python community and world of Python
programming.

I am having some trouble changing the output directory when I call
Ghostscript.
Any sugguestions would be greatly appreciated. It seems to work fine,
if I put the file in a directory that I am calling it from, like
outputdir = './temp' or I use the "C" drive w/ outputdir = ''. All I
am doing is converting a .pdf to a .tif.

device = 'jpeg'
print pdffile
pdffile = 'c:/Chris_J_Stuff/chris.pdf'
outputdir = "c:\\Chris_J_Stuff\\"
print pdffile
print outputdir
suffix = 'tif'
os.system(ghost_dir + ' -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -sBATCH -sDEVICE=%s
-sOUTPUTFILE=% s/page%%d.%s %s' % (device, outputdir,suffix,
pdffile))
Thank you in advance.

Chris J.

[Brian Elmegaard]

cj********@hbr-inc.com (Chris Jankowski) writes:

os.system(ghost_dir + ' -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -sBATCH -sDEVICE=%s
-sOUTPUTFILE=% s/page%%d.%s %s' % (device, outputdir,suffix,
pdffile))

What about
os.system('copy '+)
?

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[Bengt Richter]

On 7 Sep 2004 11:07:44 -0700, cj********@hbr-inc.com (Chris Jankowski) wrote:

Hi all,
I am still fairly new to the Python community and world of Python
programming.

I am having some trouble changing the output directory when I call
Ghostscript.
Any sugguestions would be greatly appreciated. It seems to work fine,
if I put the file in a directory that I am calling it from, like
outputdir = './temp' or I use the "C" drive w/ outputdir = ''. All I
am doing is converting a .pdf to a .tif.

device = 'jpeg'
print pdffile
pdffile = 'c:/Chris_J_Stuff/chris.pdf'
outputdir = "c:\\Chris_J_Stuff\\"
print pdffile
print outputdir
suffix = 'tif'
os.system(ghost_dir + ' -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -sBATCH -sDEVICE=%s
-sOUTPUTFILE=% s/page%%d.%s %s' % (device, outputdir,suffix, ^^^^--??pdffile))
Thank you in advance.

Suggest replacing 'os.system' with 'print repr' until it looks right.

Regards,
Bengt Richter

[Chris Jankowski]

cj********@hbr-inc.com (Chris Jankowski) wrote in message news:<a1**************************@posting.google. com>...

Hi all,
I am still fairly new to the Python community and world of Python
programming.

I am having some trouble changing the output directory when I call
Ghostscript.
Any sugguestions would be greatly appreciated. It seems to work fine,
if I put the file in a directory that I am calling it from, like
outputdir = './temp' or I use the "C" drive w/ outputdir = ''. All I
am doing is converting a .pdf to a .tif.

device = 'jpeg'
print pdffile
pdffile = 'c:/Chris_J_Stuff/chris.pdf'
outputdir = "c:\\Chris_J_Stuff\\"
print pdffile
print outputdir
suffix = 'tif'
os.system(ghost_dir + ' -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -sBATCH -sDEVICE=%s
-sOUTPUTFILE=% s/page%%d.%s %s' % (device, outputdir,suffix,
pdffile))
Thank you in advance.

Chris J.

There is a limit on the length of the command line to pass to
Ghostscript. I have not figured out how to get around this yet.

CJ