ghostscript

[Chris Jankowski]

cjankowski at hbr-inc.com (Chris Jankowski) wrote in message news:<a1301a8e.0409071007.14ea6f5e at 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