Re: pdf files

[Paul Scott]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:

> Paul Scott writes:
>
>  
>
> > > file and continues processing for a while but creates nothing new. There is
> > > no PDF file. Anyone know why?
> > >
> > >      
> > I also get no PDF's.  I installed the native LilyPond on MS Windows 98SE.
> >    
>
> Then probably ghostscript fails.  Can someone please run lilypond with
> the --verbose switch and send the log output?
>  
After dealing with the ancient DOS shell (command line) here it is.  
This also brings up another point that I have seen briefly mentioned 
either here or on the devel list.  Is there a problem with setting the 
environment variables so that LilyPond.exe can be found while working in 
another directory?

Paul Scott

# -*-compilation-*-
Processing `simple.ly'
Parsing...[C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/lilypond/2.6.0/ly/init.ly[C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/lilypond/2.6.0/ly/declarations-init.ly[C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/lilypond/2.6.0/ly/music-functions-init.ly][C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/lilypond/2.6.0/ly/nederlands.ly][C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/lilypond/2.6.0/ly/drumpitch-init.ly][C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/lilypond/2.6.0/ly/chord-modifiers-init.ly][C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/lilypond/2.6.0/ly/script-init.ly][C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/lilypond/2.6.0/ly/scale-definitions-init.ly][C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/lilypond/2.6.0/ly/grace-init.ly][C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/lilypond/2.6.0/ly/midi-init.ly[C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/lilypond/2.6.0/ly/performer-init.ly]][C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/lilypond/2.6.0/ly/paper-defaults.ly[C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/lilypond/2.6.0/ly/titling-init.ly]][C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/lilypond/2.6.0/ly/engraver-init.ly][C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/lilypond/2.6.0/ly/dynamic-scripts-init.ly][C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/lilypond/2.6.0/ly/spanners-init.ly][C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/lilypond/2.6.0/ly/property-init.ly]][simple.ly]
Interpreting music... 
[C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/lilypond/2.6.0/fonts/otf/emmentaler-20.otf][2]
elapsed time: 0.33 seconds
Element count 95 (spanners 8) 
Preprocessing graphical objects... 
Grob count 
159[C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/lilypond/2.6.0/fonts/otf/emmentaler-11.otf][C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/lilypond/2.6.0/fonts/otf/emmentaler-13.otf][C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/lilypond/2.6.0/fonts/otf/emmentaler-14.otf][C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/lilypond/2.6.0/fonts/otf/emmentaler-16.otf][C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/lilypond/2.6.0/fonts/otf/emmentaler-18.otf][C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/lilypond/2.6.0/fonts/otf/emmentaler-23.otf]
Calculating line breaks... 
Global shortest duration is 3/16
Optimal demerits: 9.037593
Element count 97.[0]
Calculating page breaks...[century_schoolbook_l__3.865234375]
Layout output to `simple.ps'...[C:/Program 
Files/LilyPond/usr/share/gs/fonts/c059013l.pfb][C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/lilypond/2.6.0/fonts/type1/PFAemmentaler-20.pfa][C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/lilypond/2.6.0/ps/music-drawing-routines.ps][C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/lilypond/2.6.0/ps/lilyponddefs.ps]
Converting to `simple.pdf'...
Invoking `gs    -dCompatibilityLevel#1.4  -sPAPERSIZE#"a4" -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH 
-r1200  -sDEVICE#pdfwrite -sOutputFile#"simple.pdf" -c .setpdfwrite -f 
"simple.ps"'...