ghostscript issues

ghostscript issues

[Thomas Bodine]

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   


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Re: ghostscript issues

[Ken Brown]

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

Re: ghostscript issues

[Marco Atzeri]

On 01.06.2020 18:43, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> 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
>>>

> 
> 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
> -- 

as alternative workaround, you can use qpdf to merge PDF files

qpdf --empty  --pages   able.pdf baker.pdf charly.pdf -- combine.pdf

Regards
Marco

Re: ghostscript issues

[Jim Garrison]

On 6/1/2020 8:26 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--                                               

Same issue here, only in my case gs is being called from OCRmyPDF.
I successfully built OCRmyPDF for Cygwin except for this issue.

Having OCRmyPDF for Cygwin would make it possible to run that tool
on Windows without having to use a VM container, which is currently
the only way to run it.

-- 
Jim Garrison jhg@acm.org

Re: ghostscript issues

[Lemures Lemniscati]

Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 12:43:44 -0400
From: Ken Brown via Cygwin

> 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

Hi!

The first bad commit causing the issue seems to be 327dc89:

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=327dc8943c0aac1c7be7a1fb6e93346b61cd0900

Lem

Re: ghostscript issues

[Ken Brown]

On 6/2/2020 7:58 AM, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin wrote:
> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 12:43:44 -0400
> From: Ken Brown via Cygwin
> 
>> 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
> 
> Hi!
> 
> The first bad commit causing the issue seems to be 327dc89:
> 
> http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=327dc8943c0aac1c7be7a1fb6e93346b61cd0900

Thanks!  I think the problem is here:

@@ -234,18 +242,14 @@ CONTRIBINCLUDE="include $srcdir/contrib/contrib.mak"
  INSTALL_CONTRIB="install-contrib-extras"

  if test x"$enable_contrib" = x; then
-  if test x"$cross_compiling" = x"yes"; then
-    enable_contrib=
-  else
-    case `uname` in
-      MINGW*|MSYS*)
+    case $host in
+      *-mingw*|*-msys*|*-cygwin*)
          AC_MSG_WARN([disabling contrib devices])
          enable_contrib=no
        ;;
        *)
        ;;
      esac
-  fi
  fi

  if test x"$enable_contrib" != x"no"; then

Do you want to send the obvious fix upstream or should I do it?

Thanks again.

Ken

Re: ghostscript issues

[Ken Brown]

On 6/2/2020 8:12 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> On 6/2/2020 7:58 AM, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 12:43:44 -0400
>> From: Ken Brown via Cygwin
>>
>>> 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
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> The first bad commit causing the issue seems to be 327dc89:
>>
>> http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=327dc8943c0aac1c7be7a1fb6e93346b61cd0900 
>>
> 
> Thanks!  I think the problem is here:
> 
> @@ -234,18 +242,14 @@ CONTRIBINCLUDE="include $srcdir/contrib/contrib.mak"
>   INSTALL_CONTRIB="install-contrib-extras"
> 
>   if test x"$enable_contrib" = x; then
> -  if test x"$cross_compiling" = x"yes"; then
> -    enable_contrib=
> -  else
> -    case `uname` in
> -      MINGW*|MSYS*)
> +    case $host in
> +      *-mingw*|*-msys*|*-cygwin*)
>           AC_MSG_WARN([disabling contrib devices])
>           enable_contrib=no
>         ;;
>         *)
>         ;;
>       esac
> -  fi
>   fi
> 
>   if test x"$enable_contrib" != x"no"; then
> 
> Do you want to send the obvious fix upstream or should I do it?

Let's hold off on this.  Just making this one change doesn't solve the problem. 
I've found several other commits that have mistakenly lumped cygwin with mingw 
and msys.  I'm still working on it.

Ken

Re: ghostscript issues

[Brian Inglis]

On 2020-06-01 15:57, Jim Garrison via Cygwin wrote:
> On 6/1/2020 8:26 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--                                               
> 
> Same issue here, only in my case gs is being called from OCRmyPDF.
> I successfully built OCRmyPDF for Cygwin except for this issue.
> 
> Having OCRmyPDF for Cygwin would make it possible to run that tool
> on Windows without having to use a VM container, which is currently
> the only way to run it.

Marco Atzeri wrote:
> as alternative workaround, you can use qpdf to merge PDF files
> qpdf --empty  --pages   able.pdf baker.pdf charly.pdf -- combine.pdf

OCRmyPDF is a python package using tesseract-ocr, ghostscript, qpdf, leptonical
(all supported on Cygwin), perhaps it can be configured or changed to use qpdf
to combine PDFs?

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Re: ghostscript issues

[Ken Brown]

On 6/2/2020 2:14 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> On 6/2/2020 8:12 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
>> On 6/2/2020 7:58 AM, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin wrote:
>>> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 12:43:44 -0400
>>> From: Ken Brown via Cygwin
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> The first bad commit causing the issue seems to be 327dc89:
>>>
>>> http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=327dc8943c0aac1c7be7a1fb6e93346b61cd0900 
>>>
>>
>> Thanks!  I think the problem is here:
>>
>> @@ -234,18 +242,14 @@ CONTRIBINCLUDE="include $srcdir/contrib/contrib.mak"
>>   INSTALL_CONTRIB="install-contrib-extras"
>>
>>   if test x"$enable_contrib" = x; then
>> -  if test x"$cross_compiling" = x"yes"; then
>> -    enable_contrib=
>> -  else
>> -    case `uname` in
>> -      MINGW*|MSYS*)
>> +    case $host in
>> +      *-mingw*|*-msys*|*-cygwin*)
>>           AC_MSG_WARN([disabling contrib devices])
>>           enable_contrib=no
>>         ;;
>>         *)
>>         ;;
>>       esac
>> -  fi
>>   fi
>>
>>   if test x"$enable_contrib" != x"no"; then
>>
>> Do you want to send the obvious fix upstream or should I do it?
> 
> Let's hold off on this.  Just making this one change doesn't solve the problem. 
> I've found several other commits that have mistakenly lumped cygwin with mingw 
> and msys.  I'm still working on it.

It turned out that fixing that one commit was all that was required, but the 
hunk I quoted above wasn't the culprit.

I've just uploaded ghostscript 9.52-2, which should fix the problem

Ken

Re: ghostscript issues

[Lemures Lemniscati]

Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 07:56:25 -0400
From: Ken Brown via Cygwin
> On 6/2/2020 2:14 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> > On 6/2/2020 8:12 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> >> On 6/2/2020 7:58 AM, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin wrote:
> >>> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 12:43:44 -0400
> >>> From: Ken Brown via Cygwin
> >>>
> >>>> 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
> >>>
> >>> Hi!
> >>>
> >>> The first bad commit causing the issue seems to be 327dc89:
> >>>
> >>> http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=327dc8943c0aac1c7be7a1fb6e93346b61cd0900
> >>>
> >>
> >> Thanks!  I think the problem is here:
> >>
> >> @@ -234,18 +242,14 @@ CONTRIBINCLUDE="include $srcdir/contrib/contrib.mak"
> >>   INSTALL_CONTRIB="install-contrib-extras"
> >>
> >>   if test x"$enable_contrib" = x; then
> >> -  if test x"$cross_compiling" = x"yes"; then
> >> -    enable_contrib=
> >> -  else
> >> -    case `uname` in
> >> -      MINGW*|MSYS*)
> >> +    case $host in
> >> +      *-mingw*|*-msys*|*-cygwin*)
> >>           AC_MSG_WARN([disabling contrib devices])
> >>           enable_contrib=no
> >>         ;;
> >>         *)
> >>         ;;
> >>       esac
> >> -  fi
> >>   fi
> >>
> >>   if test x"$enable_contrib" != x"no"; then
> >>
> >> Do you want to send the obvious fix upstream or should I do it?
> >
> > Let's hold off on this.  Just making this one change doesn't solve the problem.
> > I've found several other commits that have mistakenly lumped cygwin with mingw
> > and msys.  I'm still working on it.
> 
> It turned out that fixing that one commit was all that was required, but the hunk I quoted above wasn't the culprit.
> 
> I've just uploaded ghostscript 9.52-2, which should fix the problem
> 
> Ken

Now, it works.
You are great.
Thank you!

Lem

Re: ghostscript issues

[Jim Garrison]

On 6/3/2020 4:56 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> It turned out that fixing that one commit was all that was required, but
> the hunk I quoted above wasn't the culprit.
> 
> I've just uploaded ghostscript 9.52-2, which should fix the problem

Tested 9.52-2 with ocrmypdf and I can confirm it has solved the problem
here as well.

Thank you!

-- 
Jim Garrison jhg@acm.org