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    <p>I have a batch script that loops over a folder and flattens the PDFs inside it using GhostScript (9.07). I want to convert it to a PowerShell script because it seems to like to crash every once in a while and I'm just tired of debugging batch files.</p> <p>Anyway, I have a PS script that seems to work, based on it's output in the console, but I don't actually get any files. Manual entry in PS seems to work even less... What am I doing wrong?</p> <p><strong>Batch Script</strong></p> <pre><code>@ECHO OFF :: :: Process all PDFs and flatten them to PDF/A format :: ===================================================================================== FOR %%F IN ("J:\Finals\*.pdf") DO ( IF /I %%F NEQ "*Floor Plan*.pdf" ( :: Convert the original PDF to a flattened PDF PDF/A :: ======================================================================== "%ProgramFiles%\gs\gs9.07\bin\gswin64.exe" -dPDFA -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="J:\Finals\%%~nF (Final).pdf" "%%F" :: :: Delete the original PDF file :: ======================================================================== DEL "%%F" /F /Q :: :: Rename the flattened PDF PDF/A to the original PDF's name :: ======================================================================== MOVE "J:\Finals\%%~nF (Final).pdf" "%%F" ) ) :: :: Move files form the Readdle drive to the Digital Documents drive :: ===================================================================================== ROBOCOPY J:\Finals\ K:\ *.* /MOV /R:0 /W:0 /MT </code></pre> <p><strong>PowerShell Script (so far)</strong></p> <pre><code>$GhostScript = "$env:ProgramFiles\gs\gs9.07\bin\gswin64c.exe" Get-ChildItem "C:\Test In\*.pdf" | Where { $_.BaseName -NotMatch "Floor Plan" } | ForEach-Object { $InputFile = $_.FullName $OutputFile = "C:\Test Out\{0} (Final).pdf" -F $_.BaseName &amp; "$GhostScript" -dPDFA -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="$OutputFile" "$InputFile" } </code></pre> <p><strong>Output of the PowerShell Script</strong></p> <pre><code>GPL Ghostscript 9.07 (2013-02-14) Copyright (C) 2012 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. Processing pages 1 through 1. Page 1 Substituting font Times-Italic for TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT. Loading NimbusRomNo9L-ReguItal font from %rom%Resource/Font/NimbusRomNo9L-ReguItal... 4198200 2870566 3665244 2332637 3 done. Substituting font Courier for CourierNewPSMT. Loading NimbusMonL-Regu font from %rom%Resource/Font/NimbusMonL-Regu... 3755680 2306439 4089108 2566088 3 done. Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from %rom%Resource/Font/NimbusRomNo9L-Regu... 3796376 2391131 4078352 2484871 3 done. Loading Dingbats font from %rom%Resource/Font/Dingbats... 3917480 2509851 4280192 2689988 3 done. </code></pre> <p>For anyone who cares this is being tested on a Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual machine. It has 4GB of RAM and 4vCPUs. I've also checked if there was permissions issues with the test folders I was using and it wasn't the case.</p> <p><strong>UPDATE</strong></p> <p>I've updated my post to show what the current script looks like. Surrounding the <code>$OutputFile</code> variable in quotes doesn't do anything. Regardless of quotes or not, I always get output (which I've added above) that indicates the GhostScript is doing what it's supposed to, but ultimately I get no file created...</p>
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    1. COps code looks good. Could be a path spacing issue with the exe arguments (try without).
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    2. CO$GhostScript is strange shouldn't it be `$ghostScript = "$($env:ProgramFiles)\gs\gs9.07\bit\gswin64c.exe"`
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    3. CO`-sOutputFile="$OutputFile" "$InputFile"` $OutputFile has spaces right? So you need to quote it back ticks `-sOutputFile="<backtick>"$OutputFile<backtick>"" $InputFile`
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