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
