bugs in winedt 7.0 calling ps2pdf

Hi,
First of all, I do understand that is the miktex-user list and and not 
directly winedt related.
However, I hope that some of you might have similar issues and a 
possible work around.

Installation:
Miktext 2.9 on Windows 7 (64bit) with WinEdt 7.0 (gsv50w64 and gsv50w64 
also installed).
Everything is set up with default configurations.
I will describe 2 bugs, of which bug 2 is the real one that I don't 
understand.
Any insight or help would be much appreciated.
I will contact WinEdt about this too, but I've heard that here were the 
real geeks :-)

Cheers,
Timm Riesen


Bug 1
=====

WinEdt: Options -> Execution Modes -> ps2pdf -> paper size and 
orientation: Changing the setting away from "Default" will break calling 
ps2pdf:

------ console output bug 1 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Command Line:   ps2pdf.exe -sPAPERSIZE=a4 "test.ps"
Startup Folder: C:\Users\riesen\Documents\blah

Unknown paper size: ().
Error: /undefinedfilename in (a4)
Operand stack:

Execution stack:
    %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval-- 
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval-- --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push
Dictionary stack:
    --dict:1157/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:77/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: No such file or directory
MiKTeX GPL Ghostscript  9.00: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
--------- EOF console output 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

In addition to the abort of the script, the ps file that ps2pdf was 
supposed to act on gets
DESTROYED (Reduced from 29K to 3K in my tests). This part I do not 
understand.

Cause
======
For Windows versions of ps2pdf, the correct syntax would be
-sPAPERSIZE#a4 (instead of -sPAPERSIZE=a4) so WinEdt seems to call 
wrong, but why
the input file gets destroyed might be another issue (maybe even MikTek?).


Succesful test in normal console:
==============================
I then decided to test directly in a cmd console (outside the WinEdt)
ps2pdf.exe -sPAPERSIZE#a4  test.ps test.pdf works perfectly, same for 
other page formats.



Bug 2
=====
(paper size radio button was reset back to "Default" prior to this test)
WinEdt: Options -> Execution Modes -> ps2pdf -> Command Line: Switches

We directly specify
-sPAPERSIZE#a4 as a command line switch within WinEdt.

------ console output bug 2 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Command Line:   ps2pdf.exe -sPAPERSIZE#a4 "blankform.ps"
Startup Folder: C:\Users\riesen\Documents\blah\

Error: /undefinedfilename in (-sPAPERSIZE#a4)
Operand stack:

Execution stack:
    %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval-- 
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval-- --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push
Dictionary stack:
    --dict:1159/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:77/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: No such file or directory
MiKTeX GPL Ghostscript  9.00: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
--------- EOF console output 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Cause
=====
Unknown.  The command that is reported in the first line of the console 
output is sound, i.e. copy-pasting it to an outside
console and running ps2pdf complete with no error.

As in bug 1, the input ps file gets destroyed.
















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