ImageMagick maybe broken by libgs9 upgrade

Marco Atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Tue Jun 23 16:56:45 GMT 2020


On 23.06.2020 15:03, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> On 2020-06-23 14:15, Ken Brown via Cygwin was heard to say:
>> On 6/23/2020 7:27 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
>>> On 6/22/2020 9:37 PM, Emily via Cygwin wrote:

>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>> Ken
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I don't know whether this helps to track down the problem, but here goes 
> anyway: I see the same crash with .ps and .eps files (unsurprisingly, as 
> these and .pdf are processed by libgs). The same conversions work with 
> "gm convert" from the GraphicsMagick package. gm is not linked against 
> libgs, but seems to invoke the gs executable instead. This does not 
> crash, although it is linked against the very same libgs.
> 
> regards,
> Markus
> 


without a sample case we don't know if we need to rebuild ImageMagick
or GS

Regards
Marco



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