Re: question and thanks

[Tanneke den Blaauwen]

Hi Jan and Han-Wen,

I remove ghostscript from my computer, and lilypond now works!

Thanks for the help,

Tanneke

At 09:44 25-3-02 +0100, you wrote:
>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
>
>