From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: pdfjam in texlive-collection-binextra-20200406-1 doesn't work
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 09:46:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bfbb24c3-e83b-ea51-e391-435ea2930299@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200527223512.E617.50F79699@gmail.com>
On 5/27/2020 9:35 AM, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin wrote:
> Hi !
>
> pdfjam in texlive-collection-binextra-20200406-1 doesn't work.
>
> Even a simple invocation such as
>
> pdfjam a.pdf
>
> hangs while waiting for input from stdin.
>
>
> pdfjam 3.03 in TeX Live 2020 have got a major update since TeX Live 2019.
> There was a new challenge to make pdfjam work with MiKTeX on Windows through Cygwin.
> But it introduced a bug that make pdfjam fail to work with pure Cygwin TeX Live packages.
> This is a situation.
>
> I made a pull-request to fix 10+ days ago, but it is not merged yet, and still I don't know whether it will be accepted or not:
>
> https://github.com/DavidFirth/pdfjam/pull/22
>
> So, here, I attach a file to replace /usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/pdfjam/pdfjam for convenience.
Thanks. I'll keep an eye on the PR. It it doesn't get merged within the next
few weeks, I'll just apply your patch locally and make a new release.
Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-27 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-27 13:35 Lemures Lemniscati
2020-05-27 13:46 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2020-07-03 10:23 ` Lemures Lemniscati
2020-07-03 11:22 ` Lemures Lemniscati
2020-07-03 13:55 ` Ken Brown
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