diff --git a/scripts/generate_guidance.py b/scripts/generate_guidance.py
index 294758291..796acca34 100755
--- a/scripts/generate_guidance.py
+++ b/scripts/generate_guidance.py
@@ -1223,7 +1223,7 @@ def is_asciidoctor_installed():
     output, error = process.communicate()
     
     # return path to asciidoctor
-    return output.decode("utf-8")
+    return output.decode("utf-8").strip()
 
 
 def is_asciidoctor_pdf_installed():
@@ -1234,7 +1234,7 @@ def is_asciidoctor_pdf_installed():
     process = subprocess.Popen(cmd.split(), stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
     output, error = process.communicate()
 
-    return output.decode("utf-8")
+    return output.decode("utf-8").strip()
 
 def verify_signing_hash(hash):
     """Attempts to validate the existence of the certificate provided by the hash
@@ -1658,8 +1658,8 @@ def main():
     asciidoctor_path = is_asciidoctor_installed()
     if asciidoctor_path != "":
         print('Generating HTML file from AsciiDoc...')
-        cmd = f"{asciidoctor_path} {adoc_output_file.name}"
-        process = subprocess.Popen(cmd.split(), stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
+        cmd = f"{asciidoctor_path} \'{adoc_output_file.name}\'"
+        process = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True)
         process.communicate()
     else:
         print("If you would like to generate the HTML file from the AsciiDoc file, install the ruby gem for asciidoctor")
@@ -1667,8 +1667,8 @@ def main():
     asciidoctorPDF_path = is_asciidoctor_pdf_installed()
     if asciidoctorPDF_path != "":
         print('Generating PDF file from AsciiDoc...')
-        cmd = f"{asciidoctorPDF_path} {adoc_output_file.name}"
-        process = subprocess.Popen(cmd.split(), stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
+        cmd = f"{asciidoctorPDF_path} \'{adoc_output_file.name}\'"
+        process = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True)
         process.communicate()
     else:
         print("If you would like to generate the PDF file from the AsciiDoc file, install the ruby gem for asciidoctor-pdf")