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