Please ignore the gibberish I was spouting below. I now notice that I am missing a "-" on sOutputFile that is apparent in the wrapped version below but I it missed in the long command line. Sorry for the noise. G 2009/9/9 Gavin Simpson <ucfagls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Dear List, > > I'm trying to use ghostscript to merge a couple of PDFs. The approach > I'm using has worked reliably on Fedora 7-10 (IIRC) however I'm > experiencing a problem when trying to run my gs command on Fedora 11 > on a new desktop. I am running the following: > > gs -dAutoRotatePages=/None -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress > -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite > sOutputFile=foo.pdf doc1.pdf doc2.pdf doc3.pdf > > This fails with the message: > > GPL Ghostscript 8.70 (2009-07-31) > Copyright (C) 2009 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved. > This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. > **** Unable to open the initial device, quitting. > > My web searches indicate that this means gs can't open the output > file. I'm running this in a directory in my Home and I have rw > permissions there. All the files are located in this one directory. > > I'm a bit stumped now as to what to try next. There is some indication > (from the web searches I did) that this may be related to permissions > on the temporary location where gs is working initially. However I > have no idea how to find out what/where this location may be, how to > change it etc. > > Here are my gs versions: > $ yum list all | grep ghost > ghostscript.x86_64 8.70-1.fc11 @updates > ghostscript-fonts.noarch 5.50-20.fc11 installed > > Any help, much appreciated. > > G > > [Ps: Yes, I know I can do this with one of several GUI tools, but the > command line used to work and I'd like to get it working on my new > desktop.] > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
