Re: running droplet from cygwin shell-file not found

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From: Mike Russell
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 20:00

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<joled@rcn.com> wrote in message 
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> Hello,
> In ImageReady I created a droplet to add a watermark to a bunch of jpg
> images. I
> now want to run the droplet from a cygwin shell so I can create a
> script to add the
> watermark to hundreds of jpegs. The watermark.exe is in my cygwin bin
> directory which
> in windows equates to c:/Documents and Settings/me/bin. The image I am
> testing
> is in a directory called joetest named foo.jpg. So when I try to run
> the watermark.exe like
> this
>
> $cd c:/Documents and Settings/me
> $bin/watermark.exe joetest/foo.jpg
>
> I get an ImageReady error "Could not play back the batch. The file was
> not found. (c:\Documents and Settings\me\joetest\foo.jpg."
>
> The file does exist in the folder it thinks it should be in.
> If from Windows Explorer I drag foo.jpg unto watermark.exe it works
> fine. Does anyone
> have any ideas how to resolve this or what might be causing this error
> whenI try to
> run the droplet from a cygwin shell? Any ideas are appreciated.

Hi Joe,

Embedded spaces give cygwin a stomach ache.  I'd recommend moving the images 
to a folder with no spaces in the name.  If your images are hard to move, 
change your script to have quotes around the filename.
-- 

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com/forum/

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