pdfjam in texlive-collection-binextra-20200406-1 doesn't work

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Wed May 27 13:46:46 GMT 2020


On 5/27/2020 9:35 AM, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> pdfjam in texlive-collection-binextra-20200406-1 doesn't work.
> 
> Even a simple invocation such as
> 
>      pdfjam a.pdf
> 
> hangs while waiting for input from stdin.
> 
> 
> pdfjam 3.03 in TeX Live 2020 have got a major update since TeX Live 2019.
> There was a new challenge to make pdfjam work with MiKTeX on Windows through Cygwin.
> But it introduced a bug that make pdfjam fail to work with pure Cygwin TeX Live packages.
> This is a situation.
> 
> I made a pull-request to fix 10+ days ago, but it is not merged yet, and still I don't know whether it will be accepted or not:
> 
>      https://github.com/DavidFirth/pdfjam/pull/22
> 
> So, here, I attach a file to replace /usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/pdfjam/pdfjam for convenience.

Thanks.  I'll keep an eye on the PR.  It it doesn't get merged within the next 
few weeks, I'll just apply your patch locally and make a new release.

Ken


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