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Re: How can I overwrite existing files with new input to running Ghostscript?.

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On Tuesday, December 11, 2012 5:12:10 AM UTC-5, Chris wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:39:30 -0800, Ernie Kent wrote:
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> > 
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> > I am not having much luck with any of these solutions, most likely
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> > because There are problems with my syntax; I'm having difficulty finding
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> > concrete examples. Can anyone show me a short example?
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> > Thanks, Ernie
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> 
> If all you want to do really is to overwrite the same file again and 
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> again, just don't give gs the "format" part of the file names we normally 
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> use - so instead of something like "myfile%03d.jpg", give it "myfile.jpg" 
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> for the output file name.
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> Without the "%03d" marker, there is nowhere for GS to store the "index" 
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> so it doesn't.
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> NOTE: this will *not* work for formats like TIFF which have multipage 
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> support (and multipage support is implemented in Ghostscript). For those 
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> formats, leaving off the format marker in the file name will result a 
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> single multipage file.
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> And, of course, I assume you don't have to worry about multipage 
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> Postscript files....
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> 
> 
> Chris

Not quite clear on that -- I have been using -sOutputFile-test,jpg which looks like what you seem to be recommending.
Ernie

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How can I overwrite existing files with new input to running Ghostscript?. Ernie Kent <ernie@erniekent.com> - 2012-12-09 10:14 -0800
  Re: How can I overwrite existing files with new input to running Ghostscript?. Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2012-12-09 22:13 +0100
    Re: How can I overwrite existing files with new input to running Ghostscript?. Ernie Kent <ernie@erniekent.com> - 2012-12-09 13:52 -0800
      Re: How can I overwrite existing files with new input to running Ghostscript?. "luser.droog" <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2012-12-09 18:28 -0600
        Re: How can I overwrite existing files with new input to running Ghostscript?. Ernie Kent <ernie@erniekent.com> - 2012-12-09 17:11 -0800
  Re: How can I overwrite existing files with new input to running Ghostscript?. SaGS <sags5495@gmail.com> - 2012-12-09 20:24 -0800
    Re: How can I overwrite existing files with new input to running Ghostscript?. Ernie Kent <ernie@erniekent.com> - 2012-12-10 07:00 -0800
      Re: How can I overwrite existing files with new input to running Ghostscript?. Ernie Kent <ernie@erniekent.com> - 2012-12-10 12:39 -0800
        Re: How can I overwrite existing files with new input to running Ghostscript?. Chris <cjl@spamcop.net> - 2012-12-11 10:12 +0000
          Re: How can I overwrite existing files with new input to running Ghostscript?. Ernie Kent <ernie@erniekent.com> - 2012-12-11 11:04 -0800
            Re: How can I overwrite existing files with new input to running Ghostscript?. Chris <cjl@spamcop.net> - 2012-12-12 07:41 +0000
              Re: How can I overwrite existing files with new input to running Ghostscript?. SaGS <sags5495@gmail.com> - 2012-12-12 03:52 -0800
                Re: How can I overwrite existing files with new input to running Ghostscript?. Chris <cjl@spamcop.net> - 2012-12-12 12:52 +0000
                Re: How can I overwrite existing files with new input to running Ghostscript?. Ernie Kent <ernie@erniekent.com> - 2012-12-12 08:45 -0800
                Re: How can I overwrite existing files with new input to running Ghostscript?. Chris <cjl@spamcop.net> - 2012-12-13 14:07 +0000
        Re: How can I overwrite existing files with new input to running Ghostscript?. SaGS <sags5495@gmail.com> - 2012-12-11 02:44 -0800
          Re: How can I overwrite existing files with new input to running Ghostscript?. Ernie Kent <ernie@erniekent.com> - 2012-12-11 11:05 -0800
          Re: How can I overwrite existing files with new input to running Ghostscript?. Ernie Kent <ernie@erniekent.com> - 2012-12-11 12:37 -0800
          Re: How can I overwrite existing files with new input to running Ghostscript?. Ernie Kent <ernie@erniekent.com> - 2012-12-21 21:40 -0800
            Re: How can I overwrite existing files with new input to running Ghostscript?. SaGS <sags5495@gmail.com> - 2012-12-22 00:53 -0800
              Re: How can I overwrite existing files with new input to running Ghostscript?. Ernie Kent <ernie@erniekent.com> - 2012-12-22 09:00 -0800
                Re: How can I overwrite existing files with new input to running Ghostscript?. Ernie Kent <ernie@erniekent.com> - 2012-12-22 19:37 -0800
                Re: How can I overwrite existing files with new input to running Ghostscript?. Chris <cjl@spamcop.net> - 2012-12-23 17:16 +0000
                Re: How can I overwrite existing files with new input to running Ghostscript?. SaGS <sags5495@gmail.com> - 2012-12-23 10:16 -0800
                Re: How can I overwrite existing files with new input to running Ghostscript?. luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2012-12-24 19:37 -0800

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