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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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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