Re: PS error in GSView

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Monday 24 February 2003 05:20 am, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> That's really weird. I notice you have a brand new version of
> Ghostscript, could it be a bug in that? BeginPaperSize should
> be a standard construct as far as I know. I'd look for more
> information at www.ghostscript.com.
>
> Anyway, the problem is not at all related to Lilypond. The lines
> are generated based on the teTeX configuration file
> /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps (or wherever teTeX is
> installed on your system) for dvips.
>
>      /Mats
>
> Jonathan Kelly wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I get the following from GSview/Ghostscript from a simple test.
> >
> > If I edit the ".ps" file and remove the three lines
> >
> > %%BeginPaperSize: a4
> > a4
> > %%EndPaperSize
> >
> > the file views as expected.

I think that lilypond contributes its own version of config,ps,
in order to print with a4 paper.  TeTeX TeX and LaTeX
have lettersize as the default, (I hope.  An European
maintainer might change it.)
which is why you can delete the lines instead
of changing them.

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