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On 8/12/2012 2:32 PM, Paul Thompson wrote:
> I have installed cygwin. I am trying to use a combination of bash, imagemagick,
> LaTeX, and a few other packages. I have issues with imagemagick. If I run
> imagemagick installed externally, i get no problems - run cleanly.
>
> When I try to run imagemagick (specifically, the montage tool) by a bash shell,
> I get:
>
>        0 [main] montage 8856 C:\cygwin\bin\montage.exe: *** fatal error in forked
> process - failed to create new win32 semaphore, error -2
>        0 [main] montage 6456 C:\cygwin\bin\montage.exe: *** fatal error in forked
> process - failed to create new win32 semaphore, error -2
> montage: unable to read font `/usr/share/fonts/TTF/arial.ttf' @
> error/annotate.c/RenderFreetype/1120.
> montage: `%s' (%d) "gs" -q -dQUIET -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT
> -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=2 "-sDEVICE=pngalpha"
> -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 "-r72x72" -g40x40
> "-sOutputFile=/tmp/magick-gsqYxLxw--0000001" "-f/tmp/magick-quUeEm7z"
> "-f/tmp/magick-EejJYmzy" @ error/utility.c/SystemCommand/1856.
>

Paul,
what about starting from here
> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
with a bit more details so we can try to replicate ?

Additionally,
- could you upload the input file some where ?
- have you checked if "gm montage" of GraphicsMagick suite produces
the same fault ?

Regards
Marco


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