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

Sun Apr 24 22:08:13 CEST 2016

On 24.04.2016 07:46, Uwe Siart wrote:

> This is what pdfcrop --debug spits out:
>
> d:\user\coupling-structure-letter\figures>pdfcrop --debug s-params.pdf
> PDFCROP 1.38, 2012/11/02 - Copyright (c) 2002-2012 by Heiko Oberdiek.

> * Found (gswin32c): C:\programme\texlive\2016\tlpkg\tlgs\bin\gswin32c.exe
> * Autodetected ghostscript command: gswin32c
> * Input file: s-params.pdf

> * Running ghostscript for BoundingBox calculation ...
> * Ghostscript call: gswin32c -sDEVICE=bbox -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -c save pop -f s-params.pdf
> * Cleanup
> * Temporary files: tmp-pdfcrop-792.tex
> !!! Error: Ghostscript exited with error code 5!

What happens, if you run ghostscript manually?

     gswin32c -sDEVICE=bbox -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -c save pop -f s-params.pdf

Yours sincerely
   Heiko Oberdiek