Question

i’m trying to convert on windows 7 stdin to pdf using ghostscript, and instead of generating a local file, i want to send this file directly to my exe file.

I’m doing this

C:\Programas\gs\gs9.05\bin\gswin64c.exe -IC:\Programas\gs\gs9.05\lib;C:\Programas\gs\fonts -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -r300 -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sOutputFile=%%pipe%%"C:\Projectos\Online File Manager\Codigo\Ruby\shoes apps\FileCreate7.exe"

(I’ve meanwhile put the exe inside a cmd file)

I’m getting the error :

GPL Ghostscript 9.05: **** Could not open the file %pipe%c:\tempRep\filecreate.cmd .
Unrecoverable error: ioerror in setdevice
Operand stack:
    --nostringval--

Any suggestions ?

Answer 1

Basically, you can’t do this. The pdfwrite device opens the output stream as ‘seekable’ which clearly isn’t compatible with a pipe or other similar construct. You need to have a local file.