Enscript exportNotes question

[dyuhas 12]

I've discovered (or at least I think I have) an undocumented limitation to the Enscript exportNotes command: if the notebook name contains a space, then Enscript will not create the output file, and it will not display an error message. I've tried enclosing the query string in quotes (/q "notebook:Reading List - Books" or notebook:"Reading List - Books") to no avail. But when I changed the name of the notebook to Reading_List_Books then Enscript created the output file.

Must notebooks be named without spaces for exportNotes to work as advertised? Is this common knowledge that I've failed to pick up on?

One more thing, does Enscript return an errorlevel?

[emerick 155]

Must notebooks be named without spaces for exportNotes to work as advertised? Is this common knowledge that I've failed to pick up on?

It's a bug in ENScript and it seems that renaming the notebook to remove the spaces is the only viable workaround. We'll address the bug in a future release. Thanks for pointing it out!

One more thing, does Enscript return an errorlevel?

ENscript returns 0 on success and 1 on failure.

[z0rl2c 2]

Any word on a fix yet?

[jefito 5,589]

Appears to still be a bug. Return value of enscript.exe in this case is non-zero (i.e., an error).

[Guest mrossk]

Seems not be fixed until now.

[emerick 155]

You can make this work by quoting the notebook parameter as follows:

 

enscript exportNotes /q notebook:\""Reading List - Books"\"

 

To make the specific characters I'm using more obvious, I'll insert some spaces between them below for clarity (but don't do that when running the command )

 

notebook: \ " " Reading List - Books " \ "

[jefito 5,589]

Wow, I'm not sure that I would have ever guessed that that combination would work. The following works as well:

enscript showNotes /q notebook:"\"Test Notebook"\"

or, in expanded form:

 

notebook: " \ " Test Notebook " \ "
 

Which is a little more consistent, somehow.

Thanks for tracking that one down.

[PqHost Internet Services 5]

I search for an hour on how to do this and hot damn if Emerick's fix didn't solve it!!!

[PqHost Internet Services 5]

I wonder can this please be added to the page??

 

https://dev.evernote.com/doc/articles/enscript.php