Re: ghostscript issues

[Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>]

On 6/1/2020 11:26 AM, Thomas Bodine via Cygwin wrote:
> My favorite use of ghost script is to combine PDF's. I upgraded Cygwin this weekend, and ghost script fails to perform this task
> 
> I am running this:
> Cygwin Setup version 2.904 (64 bit)
> base-cygwin 3.8-1
> ghostscript 9.52-1
> ghostscript-fonts-other 6.0-1
> Windows 10 Pro version 1909 build 18363.836
> 
> When I run the script:
>   $ gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite  -sOutputFile=combine.pdf  able.pdf baker.pdf charly.pdf
>>
> GPL Ghostscript 9.52 (2020-03-19)
> Copyright (C) 2020 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> This software is supplied under the GNU AGPLv3 and comes with NO WARRANTY:
> see the file COPYING for details.
> Processing pages 1 through 1.
> Page 1
> Error: /rangecheck in --restore--
> Operand stack:
>     --dict:8/16(L)--   --dict:38/38(ro)(L)--
> Execution stack:
>     %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   restore   --nostringval--   2
> %stopped_push   --nostringval--   restore   restore   false   1   %stopped_push
>    1990   1   3   %oparray_pop   1989   1   3   %oparray_pop   1977   1   3   %op
> array_pop   1978   1   3   %oparray_pop   restore   restore   2   1   1   restor
> e   %for_pos_int_continue   1981   1   7   %oparray_pop   restore   restore   18
> 94   2   9   %oparray_pop
> Dictionary stack:
>     --dict:737/1123(ro)(G)--   --dict:1/20(G)--   --dict:80/200(L)--   --dict:80/
> 200(L)--   --dict:135/256(ro)(G)--   --dict:318/325(ro)(G)--   --dict:33/64(L)--
>     --dict:6/9(L)--   --dict:6/20(L)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> GPL Ghostscript 9.52: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

I can confirm this.  As a workaround, downgrade ghostscript and libgs9 to the 
previous version, 9.50-1, while I investigate.

Thanks for the report.

Ken