Re: lilypond 1.8.1-1 on OS X 10.2.6 installed but test fails

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> Thanks for the help!  The test runs now -- it generates the pdf, although the 
> verbose output contains some warnings that I'd like to see if I can 
> eliminate, especially the one which culminates in the statement, "dvips: Such 
> scaling will generate extremely poor output".
> 
> I was waiting to ask this follow-up question until I had installed a variety 
> of packages which may help, e.g. t1utils, and mftrace, but the list of 
> prerequisites is proliferating fast, and installing packages from source via 
> Fink on my old 400mhz G4 is unbelievably slow -- many times slower than it 
> should be -- so I'll just send the email now.
> 
> Again, output at the end of this email.  Hopefully soon I'll have enough that 
> I can leave you in peace.

You can also just use

    ly2dvi -P


which generates PostScript. The fonts will look fuzzy if you run the
postscript through distiller, but it's perfectly usable.


Meanwhile, did anyone yet file a bugreport with the Fink maintainer?

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Han-Wen Nienhuys   |   address@hidden   |   http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen