ImageMagick maybe broken by libgs9 upgrade

[Lemures Lemniscati]

Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 08:15:01 -0400
From: Ken Brown via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>

> On 6/23/2020 7:27 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> You could also try adding the '-verbose' option to your command line to see if that gives a clue.
> 

How about something like:

convert -density 300 label.pdf -crop 1500x1200+0+0 label.png

Lem