Re: No .ps for me? [halfway solved]

[Mats Bengtsson]

Kilian A. Foth wrote:
> Kilian A. Foth writes:
> [...]
>  > Invoking `dvips  -t "a4"   -u+ec-mftrace.map -u+lilypond.map -Ppdf music'...
>  > 
>  >  kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 8000 --mag 1+0/8000 --dpi 8000 ecrm10
>  >  mktexpk: Mismatched mode ljfour and resolution 8000; ignoring mode.
>  >  mktexpk: Can't guess mode for 8000 dpi devices.
>  >  mktexpk: Use a config file, or update me.
>  > 
>  > So lilypond appears to demanding 8000 dpi fonts for everything, but
>  > I would need 600 dpi. How do I change this?
>
> It turns out the only thing that gave my TeX trouble is the option
> -Ppdf to dvips. Removing that gives perfect output. 
>
> I don't have a configuration file config.pdf, and that threw my dvips
> back to some weird unmanagable default resolution. Is every UNIX
> system supposed to have a `pdf' printer? And why would it be used in
> the dvips step anyway, since the output is plain postscript?

Every teTeX installation I have seen has a config.pdf file, to be used
when generating a .ps file with Type1 (vector fonts) that for example
can be used as the input to ps2pdf.

   /Mats