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From: Marco Atzeri via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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On 01.06.2020 18:43, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> On 6/1/2020 11:26 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
>>>

> 
> I can confirm this.  As a workaround, downgrade ghostscript and libgs9 
> to the previous version, 9.50-1, while I investigate.
> 
> Thanks for the report.
> 
> Ken
> -- 

as alternative workaround, you can use qpdf to merge PDF files

qpdf --empty  --pages   able.pdf baker.pdf charly.pdf -- combine.pdf

Regards
Marco


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