How to use Power Shell in this case?

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Hello everyone,

I am using “Power Shell” in order to fill the fields in an editable PDF. The script works properly (it can be found on this forum) but when I try to pass as variables the paths, an error is shown:

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom($path1) | Out-Null
$PDFDoc = New-Object iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfReader -ArgumentList $path2
$PDFDoc_ = New-Object iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfStamper($PDFDoc,[System.IO.File]::Create($path3))

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I really do not know why…
Any ideas? Thanks a bunch!

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Need help please.
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Hi @EngAnalyst,
Please have a look here :slight_smile:
Maybe it will help you:

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Thank you very much @Pablito
I already read such a thread but I am not able to sort it out… The sentence that seems to be mistaken is the second one:

$PDFDoc = New-Object iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfReader -ArgumentList $path2

But I do not know why… I am really confused.

Thanks a lot again.

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I think $path2 needs to be declared before you can use it as a parameter.

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All the parameters (also path1, path3…)?

Btw happy birthday @Pablito !

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Thanks :slight_smile:

Yes. Normally all used variables needs to be declared prior to use them in code. The only exception is when you are using variables like this:

$variable = Get-Something -Parameter | Sort-Object blablabla

In this case you can use variable even inside the whole code as you are assigning parameters to it in the same moment where you are declaring it.

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Thanks Pablito.

Finally I sorted it out. Have a nice day.