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arya009
arya009

Reputation: 45

Convert Images to PDF using GhostScript

I am trying to convert jpg images to PDF using GhostScript. I have installed latest version on ghostscript on my Win7 32bit machine.

gswin32c -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -h -r300  -o C:\Docs\MyFile.pdf  
C:\gs\gs9.10\lib\viewjpeg.ps -c C:\Docs\123.jpg viewJPEG

It read and created pdf but it is of size 3KB which doesnt show anything in it.

Is something wrong with the above command?

Solved:

I used following command and it converted my jpeg to PDF

gswin32c -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -o stuff%03d.pdf viewjpeg.ps -c "(C:/Docs/grid.jpg) << /PageSize 2 index viewJPEGgetsize 2 array astore  >> setpagedevice viewJPEG"

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7692

Answers (1)

KenS
KenS

Reputation: 31141

Yes the command is invalid. -h gives you help at the command line, its not sensible to use that in a real command. You've specified -c which means 'process the next stuff as direct PostScript' and then put the filename directly. '\' is an escape character in PostScript, so you'll end up trying to execute a PostScript command 'CDocs123.jpg' there won't be any such command, so you'll get an error. The pdfwrite device has already opened the PDF file, but the error means no marks are drawn on the page, so you get an empty PDF file.

You need to enclose the filename in parentheses so that it is loaded as a PostScript string, and I'd also recommend using forward slashes:

(c:/Docs/123.jpg)

Upvotes: 2

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