From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: Emily <emilyw@yahoo.com>, "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: ImageMagick maybe broken by libgs9 upgrade
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 08:15:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <134f371b-8989-4ed7-2209-acc486960d65@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <92b51d45-55b5-33e1-c1c7-883094b6b09b@cornell.edu>
On 6/23/2020 7:27 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> On 6/22/2020 9:37 PM, Emily via Cygwin wrote:
>> I use ImageMagick to convert and crop shipping labels from PDFs generated by
>> Ebay. On 6/8, this command worked:
>>
>> $ convert -density 300 -crop 1500x1200 label.pdf label.png
>> Aborted (core dumped)
>>
>>
>> The command still runs on PDFs that were not generated by Ebay, but I get the
>> same error on old Ebay PDF files (from 6/8 and earlier) that previously
>> converted and cropped without problems.
>>
>>
>> This is in my /var/log/setup.log:
>>
>> 2020/06/09 19:52:15 29 install libgs9 9.52-2
>> 2020/06/09 19:52:15 30 erase libgs9 9.27-2
>>
>>
>> Cropping in a separate step after converting to PNG still works:
>>
>> $ convert -density 300 label.pdf temp.png
>> $ convert -crop 1500x1200 temp.png label.png
>>
>>
>> But in case other ImageMagick functionality is also broken, this isn't a
>> permanent solution. I tried to downgrade libgs9, but 9.27 is no longer an
>> option in setup, even after I added another mirror.
>
> Please provide a sample label.pdf for which you're seeing this behavior.
You could also try adding the '-verbose' option to your command line to see if
that gives a clue.
Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-23 12:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <241354771.1752406.1592876221936.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2020-06-23 1:37 ` Emily
2020-06-23 11:27 ` Ken Brown
2020-06-23 12:15 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2020-06-23 13:03 ` Markus Hoenicka
2020-06-23 16:56 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-06-23 18:18 ` Ken Brown
2020-06-23 20:56 ` Ken Brown
2020-06-23 21:02 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-06-24 5:30 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-06-24 10:24 ` Ken Brown
2020-06-24 18:21 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-06-24 18:46 ` Emily
2020-06-24 19:03 ` Ken Brown
2020-06-24 19:04 ` Marco Atzeri
[not found] ` <1033343864.3079093.1593118308854@mail.yahoo.com>
2020-06-26 3:38 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-06-26 4:00 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-06-26 5:46 ` Emily
2020-06-26 18:10 ` marco atzeri
2020-06-23 13:05 ` Lemures Lemniscati
2020-06-23 19:32 ` Emily
2020-06-23 19:41 ` Ken Brown
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