Re: pdf files

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Paul Scott writes:

> After dealing with the ancient DOS shell (command line) here it is.

Thanks.

> 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?

Not that I know of.  What problem are you referring to?

> Invoking `gs    -dCompatibilityLevel#1.4  -sPAPERSIZE#"a4" -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH 
> -r1200  -sDEVICE#pdfwrite -sOutputFile#"simple.pdf" -c .setpdfwrite -f 
> "simple.ps"'...

Ok, now please try running the gs command manually, first setting the
appropriate env vars (set LILYPOND_VERBOSE=1 to see the values that lp uses)

set GS_LIB=C:/PROGRA~1/LILYPOND/USR/share/ghostscript/fonts  # ? check
set GS_FONTHPATH=C:/WINDOWS/FONTS

gs    -dCompatibilityLevel#1.4  -sPAPERSIZE#"a4" -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200  
-sDEVICE#pdfwrite -sOutputFile#"simple.pdf" -c .setpdfwrite -f "simple.ps"

... must run

Jan.

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