Re: Question about Windows LP Code and Ghostscript

[Phil Holmes]

Top posting - apologies - the penalty of 2 windows users.

James - I'm almost certain Ghostscript is completely standalone.  In the 
days when Lily left the .ps files in the directory by default, I wrote a 
program that I associated with .ps and which called Ghostscript - I found it 
handy when I'd compiled a 10 minute score only to find it was still open in 
Adobe!  Ghostscript ran happily and compiled the PDF.

At present it's hardwired to a specific set of directories, but I could mod 
it if it would help.

--
Phil Holmes


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Lowe" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 3:17 PM
Subject: Question about Windows LP Code and Ghostscript


Hello,

Sorry if this is a basic question, but I have found an issue with Windows 7 
and the latest SP1 that causes GS errors during LP compilation

A bug has been added to the tracker - actually it was closed as I was not 
able to reproduce this on a clean system but have subsequently found someone 
else who had the same errors and that led me to realise it was related to 
SP1.

Anyway, I see that after I have installed LP on Windows I have in the path

C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\share\ghostscript

and that this version is 8.70.

Just for kicks can I download the latest version of GS and simply replace 
the directories in the LP Path with these ones? or are there some 
dependencies/libraries that we build into LP (if that makes sense) that 
would cause this not to work?

It's a test machine, but I wondered if it was as simple as this to see if 
later versions of GS have the same problem without having to compile/make 
the whole binaries again (which I do not have the skill for).

james



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