Lilypond - which Ghostscript and which GS viewer to install.

[Guus Wijte]

Well,

 

I re-installed Lilypond today and got it up and runnning. It really wasn't all that troublesome.

 

I did the testing for Windows as suggested, and then when I ran the command :

 

gsview32 -P foo

 

a message came back that I had to install a Ghostscript.

 

At first I ignored this meassage, and proceeded to open the "foo" file in gsview as suggested.

The music displayed beautifully in the gsview-er window, but then I could not print it without having Ghostscript installed of course.

 

I then installed Ghostscript 7.04  (the latest Beta version).

At the Ghostscript site it also says that I have to use an updated gs viewer capable of dealing with Ghostscript 7.04.

It said that gsview version 32 (do they mean : gsview32 ?) won't work with Ghostscript 7.04  :

 

 

The message there reads :

 

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Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 or XP

You will need to obtain and run the self-extracting EXE

gs704w32.exe, AFPL Ghostscript 7.04 for Win32 6208000 bytes

You can unzip this if you want to check the contents.

It is recommended that you also install GSview, a graphical interface to Ghostscript. GSview 4.1 and earlier will not work with AFPL Ghostscript 7.04. You will need to use GSview 4.12 beta.

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(I actually tried to run gsview32 after having installed Ghostscript 7.04, and indeed following messages came back when I tried to open the "foo" file :

 

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Unknown in Setup section at line 298:
  %%BeginPaperSize: a4
Unknown in Setup section at line 300:
  %%EndPaperSize
Loaded Ghostscript DLL C:\Ghostscript\gs7.04\bin\gsdll32.dll
Wrong version of DLL found.
  Found version 704
  Need version  403 - 699
Unloaded GSDLL

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QUESTIONS :

 

Question 1 : What do I need to do : install the updated gsviewer? Which one exactly?

 

Is it : gsv41w32.exe   Win32 self extracting archive   ??

 

 

Question 2 : What does Windows 32 mean?

 

 

Question 3 : In the directory :  ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/ghostgum/beta/

 

there are more files; there is also a gsv412rsc.zip file  What is in this source-file? Do I need to install this file as well?

 

 

Question 4 : Or is it best to uninstall GHostscript 7.04, and then install Ghostscript  7.03 together with GSview release v4.1?

 

Question 5 : When uninstalling, since these programs run under DOS and cannot be uninstalled via the Control Panel, does it suffice to just remove the pertaining directories? 

 

 

For your information :

 

My operating system is Windows 95.

 

I downloaded Lilypond just today, Feb 5 002. This is version ( I am not sure) : lilypond-1.4.10.jcn1-1.tar.bz2

 

That's all I can dream up for now.

 

Thanks, Guus Wijte.