Re: question and thanks

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Tanneke den Blaauwen <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Tanneke,

It seems that your error:

> Unknown in Setup section at line 275:
>   %%BeginPaperSize: a4
> Unknown in Setup section at line 277:
>   %%EndPaperSize
> Loaded Ghostscript DLL C:\gs\gs6.53\bin\gsdll32.dll
> GNU Ghostscript 6.53 (2002-02-13)
> Copyright (C) 2002 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved.
> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details.
> Unrecoverable error: invalidaccess in .setdevice
> Operand stack:
>     --nostringval--  --nostringval--  --nostringval--  --nostringval--
> --nostringval--  --nostringval--  --nostringval--  --nostringval--
> Failed to open device or install ViewerPreProcess hook: returns -7

(good thing you included it verbatim), is caused by a mismatch between
ghostview (the GUI) and ghostscript (the actual Postscript
interpreter).

There are two workarounds listed here:

    http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/bugs.htm#20020125

You could also try to uninstall the ghostview/ghostscript you
downloaded separately, and instead rerun LilyPond's setup.exe

    http://lilypond.org/cygwin/setup.exe

and select packages 'gs' and 'gzview'.  These should have been
selected automatically, if not, that's a bug of setup.exe.

> I do not know whether I write to an exsisting person or an answering
> computer, but anyway, I would like to thank the inventors of Lilypond for
> their kindness to share this program with everybody who likes to
> write music.

Thanks!  Oh, and you're writing to a mixture of both; this is a
mailing list for lilypond users.  A lot of people can read this mail;
I'm one of the developers.  You chose the correct email address to ask
for help.

> Thanks a lot in advance.
>
> (you can also write back in dutch)

I'd like to keep this on this mailing list (and thus in English if
that's ok), until your problem has been resolved; it may help others.

Greetings,
Jan.

-- 
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien       | http://www.lilypond.org