[tex-live] [pretest] pdfcrop crashes when called from certain directory
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Tue Apr 26 01:50:42 CEST 2016
On 2016-04-25 at 17:47:45 +0200, Uwe Siart wrote:
> In addition to gs in TeXLive I have a separate installation of
> Ghostscript. Now I removed this one from my path and the crash is
> gone.
>
> Obviously it makes a difference which ps2pdf is called, although
> both gs are version 9.19.
If you are using an external Ghostscript, ps2pdf is certainly an
MS-DOS batch file, but for the Ghostscript installation shipped with
TeX Live I replaced all these batch files by Lua scripts.
To be more precise, I did't look at the MS-DOS batch files at all,
I actually ported the Unix shell scripts to Lua.
Maybe the MS-DOS batch file provided by the external Ghostscript is
the culprit. All these batch files are quite old and probably not
maintained for decades.
For TeX Live I ported them to Lua because I don't have Windows but the
Lua scripts are completely platform-independent.
Regards,
Reinhard
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