Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2020 19:23:58 +0900
From: Lemures Lemniscati

> Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 09:46:46 -0400
> From: Ken Brown via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> 
> > On 5/27/2020 9:35 AM, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin wrote:
> > > Hi !
> > >
> > > pdfjam in texlive-collection-binextra-20200406-1 doesn't work.
> > >
> > > Even a simple invocation such as
> > >
> > >      pdfjam a.pdf
> > >
> > > hangs while waiting for input from stdin.
> > >
> > >
> > > pdfjam 3.03 in TeX Live 2020 have got a major update since TeX Live 2019.
> > > There was a new challenge to make pdfjam work with MiKTeX on Windows 
> > > through Cygwin.
> > > But it introduced a bug that make pdfjam fail to work with pure Cygwin 
> > > TeX Live packages.
> > > This is a situation.
> > >
> > > I made a pull-request to fix 10+ days ago, but it is not merged yet, and 
> > > still I don't know whether it will be accepted or not:
> > >
> > >      https://github.com/DavidFirth/pdfjam/pull/22
> > >
> > > So, here, I attach a file to replace 
> > > /usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/pdfjam/pdfjam for convenience.
> > 
> > Thanks.  I'll keep an eye on the PR.  It it doesn't get merged within the 
> > next few weeks, I'll just apply your patch locally and make a new release.
> > 
> > Ken
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Will you adopt a fixed version of pdfjam 3.03 for cygwin? (since the author 
> seems too busy to merge it).
> 
> (1) Please adopt a version https://github.com/DavidFirth/pdfjam/pull/22 , at 
> least.
> 
> (2) Or, please adopt a version https://github.com/DavidFirth/pdfjam/pull/26 , 
> if you think the commit 
> https://github.com/DavidFirth/pdfjam/pull/26/commits/d4025732b0fca36950ae9de60b9bd256da0b7617
>  is favorable.
> 

A patched version at https://github.com/DavidFirth/pdfjam/pull/22 is attached 
to the mail https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2020-May/245016.html .

A patched version at https://github.com/DavidFirth/pdfjam/pull/26 is attached 
to this mail.

Regards,

Lem

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