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