From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm1-x332.google.com (mail-wm1-x332.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::332]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2BA49387085D for ; Mon, 1 Jun 2020 17:48:13 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org 2BA49387085D Received: by mail-wm1-x332.google.com with SMTP id d128so400694wmc.1 for ; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 10:48:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=6JoIhgL2bj3oB4miGhDuQWWDp30v34VNDoSCMzTahvA=; b=sj2nk73DcT8cMEBnl9LLml3ypwWDDLJr8VR632sDTrE7sKIX9O5yLRqLece0rrpCvl C2pIGB7PEuTlIu1amZjqyl+e2zeAyAMyowvvUjroC8dkVYCL3AJSh+y7lfUw029NTtWo lk5AyCZrMfkeSgiofC9OcKgaW2C4ahJBdz1bhJiePpMxcGgn+I1oELd9t6eX//hoQZ3a 2N/BaWI+R+wzXYZ5cVLrDDpVn/2ktXUFDBrqIuNGG0ra32NVbuf/zKPqll4VnDBB0d+W u9aR3ZnXHBB44N/vlOceYotkSyZPreIU26Ux1CS0LY+gDap9Zw2FO3Fp7p8uj4jPe8SA ryAw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532ZNtr2WYLwWztqmJdvUjOXckXYjk5KgHwgiTcBBLumK0xZ1tlF lNyAQPhRIbUPl+8/T1PkY1bxkbzY X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJwscZsK8CUFaIjTiqKUZjcQm4yKTLkvwhkUSFvqCpmXHmIgRHPt8JkwdHqNp2AE028q5xG3Ag== X-Received: by 2002:a1c:3206:: with SMTP id y6mr406230wmy.12.1591033691001; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 10:48:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?IPv6:2003:cc:9f3b:4c2f:a437:c1e7:cf9c:7f82? (p200300cc9f3b4c2fa437c1e7cf9c7f82.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [2003:cc:9f3b:4c2f:a437:c1e7:cf9c:7f82]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id w10sm232004wrp.16.2020.06.01.10.48.08 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 01 Jun 2020 10:48:09 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: ghostscript issues To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1604953430.859583.1591025163209.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1604953430.859583.1591025163209@mail.yahoo.com> <54b353b1-3d7f-a3fb-532f-06e761ddaa0b@cornell.edu> From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: <9ddf591c-6674-f641-78ac-5ee4713d90e8@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 19:48:08 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.8.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <54b353b1-3d7f-a3fb-532f-06e761ddaa0b@cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Language: it Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, DKIM_VALID_EF, FREEMAIL_FROM, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2020 17:48:14 -0000 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