getting ghostscript to take in files with spaces in their name (like something in “my documents”)

Question

I'm trying to run this command to use ghostscript (from java) but Whether with single quote ' or " or nothing at all I get an error

Error: /undefinedfilename in ('c:\\Documents)


gswin32c.exe -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=tiffgray -sOutputFile=C:\polter.tiff -r300 'c:\Documents and Settings\polter.pdf' -c quit

any ideas?

Answer 1

use the short names for folders. short names are aliases which are using the 8.3 format. you can find the short name of a folder by using the dir /x command on the command prompt. your path will then look something like this: c:\docume~1\polter.pdf

Answer 2

Break up the arguments yourself:

String[] cmd = {
  "gswin32c.exe",
  "-q", "-dNOPAUSE", "-sDEVICE=tiffgray",
  "-sOutputFile=C:\polter.tiff", "-r300",
  "c:\Documents and Settings\polter.pdf",
  "-c", "quit"
};
Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);