Bug 185645
Summary: | psmerge does not work at all | ||||||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Peter Williams <peter> | ||||
Component: | psutils | Assignee: | Radek Vokál <rvokal> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||
Version: | 4 | ||||||
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Hardware: | All | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
URL: | http://www.newton.cx/~peter/docs/psmerge.html | ||||||
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Fixed In Version: | 1.17-26 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||
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Last Closed: | 2006-06-14 07:09:19 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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The psmerge program included with psutils simply doesn't work. Reading the source will confirm that quickly. Note, for instance, that a line is only printed of $print is set, and that variable occurs nowhere else in the program ... I'm filing this bug with Red Hat because there doesn't seem to have been an upstream release for nine years, so I doubt that the original author is going to push a release for this fix -- if he can even be contacted. I'm not planning on filing this bug with every distribution under the sun, but I'm not sure what else to do about it besides get distros to fix it. (I'm not really interested in claiming maintainership of the module or anything.) I attach a version of psmerge that works for me, although I know nothing about PostScript, so it may be fairly broken. Tried with psutils-1.17-25. Neither the original, neither yours implementation works for me (tried with ps files generated from .tex files). Your implementation added to the output file only the first ps file, the rest of the file was blank (however, the number of pages in the output was ok). This implementation is now included in the latest version of psutils, which is 1.17-26. |
Created attachment 126232 [details] A better psmerge implementation that sometimes works