ImageMagick maybe broken by libgs9 upgrade

[Ken Brown]

On 6/22/2020 9:37 PM, Emily via Cygwin wrote:
> I use ImageMagick to convert and crop shipping labels from PDFs generated by Ebay.  On 6/8, this command worked:
> 
> $ convert -density 300 -crop 1500x1200 label.pdf label.png
> Aborted (core dumped)
> 
> 
> The command still runs on PDFs that were not generated by Ebay, but I get the same error on old Ebay PDF files (from 6/8 and earlier) that previously converted and cropped without problems.
> 
> 
> This is in my /var/log/setup.log:
> 
> 2020/06/09 19:52:15   29 install libgs9                9.52-2
> 2020/06/09 19:52:15   30   erase libgs9                9.27-2
> 
> 
> Cropping in a separate step after converting to PNG still works:
> 
> $ convert -density 300 label.pdf temp.png
> $ convert -crop 1500x1200 temp.png label.png
> 
> 
> But in case other ImageMagick functionality is also broken, this isn't a permanent solution.  I tried to downgrade libgs9, but 9.27 is no longer an option in setup, even after I added another mirror.

Please provide a sample label.pdf for which you're seeing this behavior.

Thanks.

Ken