[tex-live] [pretest] pdfcrop crashes when called from certain directory

Justin C. Walker justin at mac.com
Sat Apr 23 23:12:14 CEST 2016


On Apr 23, 2016, at 10:56 , Uwe Siart wrote:

> Uwe Siart <usenet at siart.de> writes:
> 
>> I will continue my search in the direction filesystem or so.
> 
> It is the whole name
> 
> ,----
> | d:\user\coupling-structure-letter\figures\s-params.tex
> `----
> 
> that pdfcrop (or ghostscript) does not like, for whatever reason. If I
> move everything to a different volume/partition, say
> 
> ,----
> | f:\user\coupling-structure-letter\figures\s-params.tex
> `----
> 
> I get the same crash. When I do a rename like
> 
> ,----
> | f:\user\coupling-structure-let\figures\s-params.tex
> `----
> 
> the crash is gone.

Filename length perhaps (buffer over-run)?

Justin

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